"If we are to be consistent libertarians, then the government should stop meddling in health care and health insurance altogether. End Medicare. End Medicaid. Close down veterans' hospitals. Stop funding medical research. Stop funding pharmaceutical research. Stop mandating vaccines. Stop mandating emergency room treatment. Stop mandating health insurance policies. Stop doing those things that cost us 6.6% of our GDP when we have to kick in another 7% or more of our own." This quote elaborates that vaccinations supplied by pharmaceutical companies, and other medical research no less, are too expensive. In my article, I am fighting to prove the importance of vaccines. This article disregards the importance of medical technicalities. By the sheer attitude of this person, we can see a point of view that disregards vaccines and their uses.
2.) First off, it was hard to tell from the articles themselves whether the author was striving to tell a point that healthcare was too expensive or a point that healthcare was not expensive. In fact the second article that was supporting healthcare because it was not expensive, actually portrayed to me more that a government run healthcare overall was expensive... (quote was used above in #1). Also, the articles seemed more inclined to not have the health care plan today be issued. Like in Joel A. Harrison, “Paying More, Getting Less.”,
"Getting What We’ve Already Paid For
Americans spend more than anyone else in the world on health care. Each health insurer adds its bureaucracy, profits, high corporate salaries, advertising, and sales commissions to the actual cost of providing care. Not only is this money lost to health care, but it pays for a system that often makes it more difficult and complicated to receive the care we’ve already paid for.", It sounds like they oppose health care. With a closer examination, I think that they are really saying that health care now is bad and that health care run by government should be possible. They do word it awkwardly though...
As for the side opposing government health care because of how expensive it is, the article George F. Will, "Dr. Leavitt's Scary Diagnosis.", argues on that government medicare is a large example of the possible health care plan to come, which is way expensive. One thing that I disliked about this though is this quote, "Furthermore, nearly 30 percent of Medicare spending pays for care in the final year of patients' lives." This author acts like old people are a burden. He totally puts aside the fact that he himself might be running on healthcare. So what about it? Is he proposing to cut off medicare? Without it more people will die sooner (in the old age). Also, with the article, Larry Kudlow, “Obama’s ‘Public’ Health Plan Will Bankrupt the Nation.”, the author's writing is mainly towards a certain audience, with the way he speaks in his oppinion. He makes the healthcare plan seem absurd when he says things like "Utter nonsense.", or "Fictitious." The fact that he gives his opinion early on sort of turns me away from what he is getting at, because he is giving a harsh and negative light to the situation.
Overall, I am undecided about whether health care is too expensive or not that expensive...
As for the side opposing government health care because of how expensive it is, the article George F. Will, "Dr. Leavitt's Scary Diagnosis.", argues on that government medicare is a large example of the possible health care plan to come, which is way expensive. One thing that I disliked about this though is this quote, "Furthermore, nearly 30 percent of Medicare spending pays for care in the final year of patients' lives." This author acts like old people are a burden. He totally puts aside the fact that he himself might be running on healthcare. So what about it? Is he proposing to cut off medicare? Without it more people will die sooner (in the old age). Also, with the article, Larry Kudlow, “Obama’s ‘Public’ Health Plan Will Bankrupt the Nation.”, the author's writing is mainly towards a certain audience, with the way he speaks in his oppinion. He makes the healthcare plan seem absurd when he says things like "Utter nonsense.", or "Fictitious." The fact that he gives his opinion early on sort of turns me away from what he is getting at, because he is giving a harsh and negative light to the situation.
Overall, I am undecided about whether health care is too expensive or not that expensive...
