The shown statement argued that because people should take full responsibility for their own health, government are not supposed to offer free health care for citizens. This view is awfully wrongheaded, and I am strongly against it.
First of all, there are enormous factors which affect the health of a person that it is simply biased to blame individuals for their health problems. Environmental issues, for example, are also detrimental to personal health. A real life proof is that there are thousands of people in Japan who suffered from the Fukushima accident which resulted from radiation leak of nuclear power plant. In this case, it is the government who should be held accountable for the health of citizens rather than individuals. How could government walk away from the responsibility to offer health care for the victims?
Furthermore, the fast development of capitalism as well as corporate lobbyist meddling in legislation has significantly reshaped the health, medicine and insurance industry, which unfortunately makes it incredibly expensive for the working class to access affordable health care. In fact, the health insurance company commonly abuse their information advantage over devastating patients, which usually causes them extra financial pressure to get reasonable insurance coverage. An outrageous example is a hedge fund manager purchased the patent of an effective AIDs medicine to raise the price from $13. 5 to $750, in order to make a fortune out of the suffering of patients. Therefore, government as lawmaker is crucial for protecting unprivileged citizens from greedy corporations.
Not to mention the basic role of government is to serve for the wellbeing of its people regardless of their social classes. It is defiantly irresponsible for the government to avoid to take care of public health.
The shown statement argued that
because
people
should take full responsibility for their
own
health
,
government
are not supposed to offer free
health
care
for citizens. This view is awfully wrongheaded, and I am
strongly
against it.
First of all
, there are enormous factors which affect the
health
of a person that it is
simply
biased to blame individuals for their
health
problems. Environmental issues,
for example
, are
also
detrimental to personal
health
. A real life proof is that there are thousands of
people
in Japan who suffered from the Fukushima accident which resulted from radiation leak of nuclear power plant.
In this case
, it is the
government
who should
be held
accountable for the
health
of citizens
rather
than individuals. How could
government
walk away from the responsibility to offer
health
care
for the victims?
Furthermore
, the
fast
development of capitalism
as well
as corporate lobbyist meddling in legislation has
significantly
reshaped the
health
, medicine and insurance industry, which unfortunately
makes
it
incredibly
expensive for the working
class
to access affordable
health
care
. In fact, the
health
insurance
company
commonly
abuse their information advantage over devastating patients, which
usually
causes them extra financial pressure to
get
reasonable insurance coverage. An outrageous example is a hedge fund manager
purchased
the patent of an effective
AIDs
medicine to raise the price from $13. 5 to $750, in order to
make
a fortune out of the suffering of patients.
Therefore
,
government
as lawmaker is crucial for protecting unprivileged citizens from greedy corporations.
Not to mention the basic role of
government
is to serve for the
wellbeing
of its
people
regardless of their social classes. It is
defiantly
irresponsible for the
government
to
avoid to take
care
of public
health
.