week 3: Universal Healthcare

Universal Healthcare is a very debatable issue right now. And I must say I am not in favor of it at all and here is why.
If it is so good, then why do people from other countries come to America for our healthcare? Isn’t America about being free and all being treated equally? So then why do other countries with universal healthcare treat the elderly differently than their children. They treat the children before the elderly no matter how much the other person needs it. It could be a matter of life and death and they still treat the child first. All because they say the children have more of life to live than an elderly person. Also our hospitals will be crowded and very hard to get into; which brings me to another issue. They will be so full of sick people that those germs will be spread everywhere and could cause people to get even sicker than they already are.
There was an article in the paper recently that a doctor wrote about how he had worked in England and Canada and now practices in the United States and he said that there were patients on long waiting lists and in crowded conditions. I like the point that Booker Jones stated in the Journal Star recently: “What is government going to do that's better than what the states are doing? Our system has been working pretty well so far, so what needs to change?"
I think that they should talk to other countries and about their healthcare and see what they like and don’t like about it. I bet that you will find they made a mistake making their healthcare universal and I believe this because if it was so great then why do we have people coming to our country for our healthcare?
Universal Healthcare will end up doing us more harm than good in the end. And once we decide to undertake this it will be an even greater mess to try to clean up.