While the United States of America remains a heavily industrialized country with a vast amount of wealth at its disposal, there remains a staggering need for the country to greatly improve on its medical services. Establishing a socialized medicine would help alleviate the health woes of American on the brink of losing their chances for better health conditions due to the lack of access to affordable medical healthcare facilities and the needed medicines to help cure diseases and alleviate ailments.Since socialized medicines entail certain types of publicly-funded healthcare, the role of the government in providing the funds for these types of healthcare is crucial. A wealthy nation such as America may find little difficulty in implementing socialized medicine if only there is a fitting allocation of the national budget in the socialized medicine program.
There are at least three immediate benefits that can be derived from the implementation of a socialized medicine: one is that the poor citizens will be given the healthcare treatment they need, two is that the larger health conditions in the country will be uplifted, and three is that a vibrant citizenry able to have access to medicines will further contribute to the wealth of the country since a wealthy nation is not without a healthy population.Since it is the poor who are largely at the receiving end of the socialized medicine program, they are therefore given the realization of the right to a better life devoid of health problems. The fact that America is a wealthy country does not entail that it is not facing problems of poverty, let alone the problem of a fragment of the population unable to have access to medicines. A democratic country like America whose ideals are founded on the principles of life and liberty should necessarily live up to its name by providing a publicly-funded healthcare system that fits the needs of the people.It is not only fitting and proper that socialized medicine should be implemented; more than that, it is also morally upright in the eyes of public government ethics.
Given that the poor people barely have any access to medical facilities and that the number of people living below the poverty line in America cannot be altogether ignored (Easterly and Fischer, p. 162), establishing a socialized medicine will help in uplifting the health conditions in the country.Health risks are not selective on social status and, thus, it is likely that even the poor population dealing with health problems due to lack of medicine will affect the health conditions of the larger society. One way to resolve such threat is to implement the socialized medicine as it helps contain and eliminate diseases from the groups of individuals living in the poverty line by providing more affordable, if not free, medicine to the poor. Apparently, a wealthy nation is not without a healthy population given the fact that the lives of Americans are at the center of the concerns of the government.
If the health conditions of the poor are not addressed through the socialized medicines, a considerable portion of America’s population is left behind which can affect the growth of the country as a whole. The creation of socialized medicine can help promote the health of the poor and, thus, putting them on the list of vibrant citizens who can give their share in the growth of the country in any way possible and acceptable before the eyes of the law.Yet in order to foster the institutionalization of socialized medicine there should be the proper allocation of budget. The right allocation of financial resources in the creation and maintenance of socialized medicine will most certainly affect the entire budget of the country.
Nevertheless, given the right distribution of the country’s budget where it is needed the most by the people, it is not entirely impossible to create and sustain socialized medicine in the long run.
