One-sided Opinion

I haven't really been exposed or took the time to research the disadvantages that come with a universal health care plan for our country. I must admit that I have supported the idea of such a plan due to the information that I have been exposed to and experienced as an American involved in the health/medical field. Consequently, I took the time to look into advantages and disadvantages and came across a posting that pretty much put together a lot of what I read (see below). Moreover, I realized that the overarching opinion is simply better access to health care for more Americans... if there is a better approach than universal health care, then so be it.

Advantages:
Every citizen would be covered under a national united health care system and administrative costs could be drastically reduced. According to the article Make Healthcare a Right. It's Cheaper! by By John R. Battista, M.D. and Justine A. McCabe, Ph.D., studies have shown that with a publicly administered system health care costs would have been reduced in Connecticut by two billion dollars in 1999 by the reduction of administrative costs along with other different medical buying techniques such as buying medications in bulk.

Disadvantages:
Income taxes would increase and private insurance companies may be put out of the health care administrative business. Not to mention many Americans are worried it is just another route to socialism so therefore taking away private health care is un-American.

Most would not argue that basic health care should be an available human right to all Americans and most would also agree that our current system is not working and we should all get united on health care in the U.S. The universal national health care debate will be with our society for an inevitable amount of time, or at least until healthcare is available to more Americans, so expect this to be a topic for politicians in many future elections.