Question

Is the value of providing universal health coverage great enough to incur the cost of care to the uninsured? Or, are the uninsured of less value to society than the insured? What are society's obligations, if any, if someone decides not to purchase health insurance, but then falls seriously ill or is involved in a catastrophic accident? What are the obligations if their uninsured child needs care, if any?

This is for a discussion post. Please provide 125 words in your response. Thanks in advance.

The last idiot stated United States has a Universal Health Care system! We don't! And we have several people uninsured still! Please answer the question correctly!

Answer 1

The universal health coverage as it is in countries like the UK where the coverage is provided through its government-funded National Health Service (NHS) to all. Thus this system is great enough to incur the cost of care to the uninsured. However in the USA is either, private, provided by the employer or social insurance programs such as Medicare, pooling resources and spreading the financial risk associated with major medical expenses across the entire population as well as social welfare programs such as Medicaid. The uninsured are definitely of no less value to society than the insured as having diseased person ads to the economic burden in a country. The society's obligations, if someone decides not to purchase health insurance, but then falls seriously ill or is involved in a catastrophic accident is to help the uninsured get some financial assistance or social insurance coverage such as the; Medicare and the Medicaid. The obligations if their uninsured child needs to care if any include; getting insurance coverage by the Children's Health Insurance Program.