A governmental system that recognizes the core virtue of healthcare as an absolute priority on its agenda is one that is prepared to promote well-being and reduce suffering. I argue that imposing financial means in order to receive healthcare is ethically unsound and fails to recognize all individuals as dynamic entities deserving of basic human needs. It is crucial to administer a system that establishes healthcare as a birth-given right to all rather than a commodity to some. In this, the U.S. would promote the right to life and happiness, individual choice, equality of opportunity and access, morality, medical ethics, and fraud regulation. Healthcare and COVID-19 rank as the highest in the list of national issues for young Americans and are directly intertwined with U.S. citizens and the health community. In a philosophical sense, existence in a world where billions of people don't get an equal opportunity to survive to the end is otherwordly. This project will emphasize why an equal chance to survive by providing healthcare to all would promote medical and philosophical moral values that otherwise would be neglected. The methodology will focus on reviewing literature that discusses the impacts of different healthcare systems. The opinions of medical professionals and philosophers on free health care will be analyzed by conducting interviews. Additionally, medical students from different countries will be surveyed on topics like waiting times, quality of care, probability of fraud, and the expense of medical bills. I expect that the U.S. hybrid system that distributes healthcare based on determining factors that are not necessity-based will prove to have financial burdens on the right to life, happiness, and equal opportunity. Consequently, it becomes the government's moral obligation to enhance all Americans' access to and quality of healthcare by establishing a universal healthcare system.
The Ethical Dilemma Behind Paying for Healthcare: Healthcare as a Right or Luxury
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Political Science