Saturday, March 19, 2011

Liberal vs Conservative View on Healthcare

Howdy,
Today I would like to compare the typical conservative view on healthcare reform against the typical liberal view on healthcare in the hopes of getting a better understanding of why people are so against/for it.
For starters, I will begin by analyzing the conservative view.
Conservatives, for the most part, do agree that the current healthcare system in America is inadequate, just as liberals do. The point they are in disagreement about, however, is what exactly is wrong with the system, and how they wish to fix it. Liberals, it seems, wish to hand over the healthcare system to the governemnt, the conservatives, however, wish to rectify the problem by increasing competition between health insurance and pharmaceutical companies.
Liberals on the other hand, believe that healthcare is a right to all people and should be guaranteed by the government. Also, liberals point out that the US signed the Universal Declaration of Human Right, which guarantees the right to healthcare for everyone.
In summary, liberals believe that fixing the healthcare system requires government intervention to ensure every citizen receives proper care, whereas conservatives believe that there should be an increase in competition between healthcare companies.
I would like to cap off this post by puttign forth some statistics. In 2003, 72 percent of US adults supported a government run healthcare system even it meant repealing some of the Bush tax cuts (though this statistic has most likely changed since the recession).
Thanks for Reading.

Sources:
http://usconservatives.about.com/od/conservativepolitics101/i/HealthCareReform.htm
http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/24/6/1426.full

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