One of the most important policy questions of our time concerns what type of health care system the United States of America should employ. There are basically three choices for a health care system in America: a fully private system(capitalist), a fully public system(socialist), and a hybrid system(what the United States currently employs). There are advantages and disadvantages to each system, but what we must ask ourselves is which of these systems is the most moral and fair system.
Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of the Chicago Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic church says this: "Health care is an essential safeguard of human life and dignity and there is an obligation for society to ensure that every person be able to realize this right." I fully agree with this quote because I feel that health care is a very different service than a lot of other products offered by the market. I am a capitalist and feel that the market does many things well, such as providing agricultural and electronic products, but I feel that the government can provide health care better than the market can. I believe that it is immoral for people in this country not to have access to health care.
I believe that the current system in the United States(hybrid) is a disaster and contributes to massive amounts of paperwork and wasted time. I also feel that it is an immoral system because we have more than 40 million Americans without health insurance in this country. I will explain why I believe that a single-payer health care system is the right answer to our problem.
In a single-payer health care system, the government is the only payer to health care providers. Instead of having thousands of health care organizations that pa ...