Medical Insurance
MEDICAL INSURANCE IS NON-BENIFICIAL The initial idea of medical insurance
should have been a good idea as a way of helping Americans afford medical bills
in a case of emergency or just routine physicals and check-ups. A lot of lower
class Americans could not afford the treatment and would therefore go without
medical attention in both of these cases. In cases of emergency, they would
usually be put in to collection because they could not pay the bills after the
treatment. The government decided to set a plan to have humans insured, just
like automobiles, to supposedly make medical treatment available to all people -
high, middle, or low class. This should have been a good idea...however, I
believe that it has only made things less affordable. By making this plan for
insurance on human health, the insurance agencies are making trillions upon
trillions of dollars on people who would usually skip going to the doctor for a
common cold. Initially, the insurance policies were made to help in emergency
situations for people who had a broken a leg, or had to have major surgery and
could not afford the price of high-technology treatment. The insurance would
have made the customer pay about fifty dollars a month out of they’re
hard-earned money whether they were going to use it or not, for medical
treatment.
Still, the insurance did not cover all of the expenses even though
the customer is shelling out thousands of dollars, sometimes for nothing. It is
just another way for a large insurance business to make people believe that they
need to insure their own health, like they were a possession or an item. Now
people are paying for insurance that they seldom use, but feel better because
the business has made them believe that they cannot and will not live without
medical insurance. Another bad result of medical insurance is that it has turned
the entire field of medicine in to a financial playground of human life. Doctors
are supposed to treat all patients equally, as opposed to treating only those
with insurance first, no matter what the circumstance. People who cannot afford
health insurance or are not offered the option by their jobs are usually facing
the problems of the prices that are now raised as a result of the entire
insurance idea. Not only is health insurance making the doctors care less about
their patients, it is also raising the prices higher on already outrageous
medical bills. In conclusion, I believe that the medical insurance idea is argumentive, because there are a lot of repercussions that people may or may not
have thought about. The insurance companies are benifiting immensely, but are
we? The prices of medical treatments are rising, the doctor’s attention to
actual patients as opposed to who has insurance is diminishing, and less people
are benefiting from health insurance. I do not think that medical insurance
should have been proposed in the first place. I do admit that it should have
been a benifit to Americans, but I have yet to see everyone benifit as innitialy
planned.
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