Healthcare Services Module General Engagement:
About 50 million people are medically uninsured in the United States today. Many of these people earn low wages and cannot afford health care premiums; still others have employers who do not provide health care coverage at all. Other factors associated with lack of health insurance include age, race, and educational level.
People without health insurance frequently go without needed care. For example, many seriously ill patients are seen in hospital emergency rooms after reaching a critical point with conditions that could have been prevented or treated more easily earlier on.
General Engagement: (10 pts)
After reading this week reading: Healthcare for All
Consider the issues that arise when many people who are in need of routine medical care avoid it because they don’t have health insurance and the costs of doctor’s or hospital visits are too high without it. Create an argument in favor of universal health care and identify at least two strategies you would use to publicize your proposal.