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The quality of health care a person receives should not depend on the size
of their bank balance. The government is responsible for providing a high level
of health care for all the citizens.
To what extent do agree or disagree with the above statement?
As more and more people have realized the importance of their quality of
life, the issue of health care has received increasing public attention. In my
opinion, the government should establish a high-quality health care system for
all the citizens,regardless of their gender, occupation and social status. There
are three main reasons for this as follows.
The first reason to be taken into account is based on the premise that all
men are created equal,which is a generally accepted belief in most countries.
Just like equal pay for equal work,uniform quality and quantity of health care
should be given to all citizens,who are believed to be born equal.
Similarly,health care can be compared to justice,which is dispensed impartially
by judges to all people,without reference to their social backgrounds.
Therefore,everyone stands equal under the health care system that is supposed to
be provided by the government.
In fact,poor people are those who can receive the most needed benefits from
a high level of health care. The poor, who are plagued by financial burdens and
chronic unemployment,face especially serious heath problems. Many of them live
at the subsistence level and can not afford even the fraction of the exorbitant
medical costs if there is no health care for them. In contrast,the rich,with
their luxurious and extravagant lifestyle and the extreme care of their private
doctors, often regard the health care as a dispensable thing. Therefore, the
idea that the quality of health care people receive should be in proportion to
their affluence is totally absurd.
Furthermore, as most citizens are honorable taxpayers and, therefore, make
great contribution to the society, whose finances derive largely from taxation,
good quality of health care provided by the government should be deemed as a
returned favor to these taxpayers. As a matter of fact, all developed nations
and many developing ones have incorporated health care into their welfare
system, making it one of the fundamental human rights that are granted by the
constitution. On the contrary, governments that do not attempt to address
people‘s health problems are rarely supported by the citizens.
To conclude, health care is an issue that all governments cannot afford to
avoid in their day-to-day running of the country. To them, there is no
alternative but to provide an excellent system of medical care for all the
citizens because the scenario of a country full of diseased and uncared-for
people is almost inconceivable.
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发表于 2016-7-10 15:24:07