Free Health Care for Everyone
Jan 11th 2007CarlPolitical & Social Security
One thing the draw my attention today was health care costs. Health care is one of the basic needs that should be free to everyone. It is necessary in order to guarantee the equality.
The problem when patients have to pay for the health care is that those with low incomes won’t have the same chances to afford it. It can also dissuade the poor to go to doctor. However being sick can limit quite a lot what you can do in life.
Nowadays in Sweden you pay usually between 100 and 150 Swedish crowns (approximately EUR10-16, USD14-20, GBP7-10 with current exchange rates) to visit a doctor. However, it is only a fraction of the real costs and the rest is financed by taxes. It is also only a fraction of the price in some other countries. But still, it is a lot of money for the poorest (for example the homeless, some the unemployed and so on). Even if they can afford it they may prefer not to go to doctor until they really have to.
One commonly used argument against free health care is that if going to a doctor is free, people would run there for almost nothing. This leads to increased costs to the state and possibly higher taxes. Here I want to ask: isn’t it better that people visit a doctor too often than too seldom (when it may be too late for treatment)?
Money shouldn’t be an obstacle in getting treatment.
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Pharmaceutical on 23 Jan 2007 at 7:43 #
Who really now is engaged in the control of health? To mine it neglected the large pharmaceutical companies and the medical centers. There should be a centralized management WBR LeoP
Health Pharmacy on 28 Jan 2007 at 1:45 #
Too many services in internet called Ask a Doctor simply have no license for the activity who it supervises and how with these to struggle? WBR LeoP
Kevin pharmacy on 30 Jan 2007 at 1:01 #
Please help me provide health resources for medically underserved populations and also works to build the health care workforce and maintains the National Health WBR LeoP
Liberal Road Blog » Americans Avoiding Doctor Visits Due to Costs on 04 Feb 2007 at 14:12 #
[...] I wrote in an earlier post the cost of doctor visits makes people avoid going to a doctor even when they would need it. More [...]
Nitro on 06 Mar 2007 at 16:28 #
I wish I was there at the moment
Ravi on 23 Apr 2009 at 6:52 #
Hi…
This is a Great information.
Thanks