The Challenge Universal Healthcare Poses for the U.S.

Essay from the year 2020 in the subject Health - Miscellaneous, grade: 3.0, , course: COM-362, language: English, abstract: This article reflects on the reasons universal healthcare in the United States is a topic that causes so much division, both in public opinion and among differing political ideologies and why it has not been adopted. Additionally, recent data is analyzed on the real financial costs of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2016 in contrast to the private medical sectors. Furthermore, a comparison between the numbers of treated patients, their recovery and/or death rate both in the U.S. and other Western modern nations who do offer universal healthcare to all of its citizens draw the real picture of the quality of healthcare Americans have access to. Lastly, assumptions of differing positions are laid out and arguments are arranged and examined in syllogisms and other mechanisms belonging to the field of logic.