One of the big issues that we have currently been talking about in my classes is the current health care reform debate that has been going on. After learning what some of things that people are proposing in an easier way to understand and why or why not they would work, I would like to give my thoughts on health care reform. Something needs to change now. We have sat by too long and done too little, too late for so many people and if we plan on getting out of this a drastic step needs to be taken. A lot of people may not like this idea because many conservatives and other lobbyists consider what President Obama is doing is converting us to "socialized" medicine. We already have a form of that and it's called Medicare and the people on it wouldn't trade that for what we have in our private insurance.
Currently there are almost 50 million people in the US without health insurance of any form or inadequate insurance. This is costing the US billions of dollars every year and causing an ever increasing strain on US hospitals and ER's. The fact that people seem to want to leave our system the way it currently is and change it slowly verges on complete insanity. For those people that claim "America has the best health care system in the world" just look at our rankings in health care according to the UN. We rank in the late 20's after such countries as Colombia, France, Japan, and the UK. America may have the best medical technology and pharmaceuticals in the world, but when the financial obligations of patients who need these treatments cannot be met and they are forced to suffer and have their loved ones see them suffer, is it truly a display that America has the best health care system in the world?
