Universal Healthcare

Latin America has been able to help their people by adopting universal healthcare. As a result, they have been able to stop more people from going into poverty and their populations are living longer. This poses the question does the government have a duty to provide healthcare to all its citizens. In an ideal world, every government would provide its people with free health care to eliminate a major expense every human experience in their lives. However, many countries claim that universal healthcare is inefficient. 

The argument for a country to not provide healthcare to its citizens is the way many countries try to cover that cost. Specifically, taxes are raised for all people so that whenever a citizen of that country needs medical care they do not have to pay. As a result, many individuals do not want to pay for a service when they do not believe they will use it. However, a utilitarian approach may be the most convincing argument to refute that way of thinking. By convincing the ones who believe they would never use the health care services that establish the universal healthcare system would benefit the most amount of people. In addition, explain that by taxing everyone evenly they can save the most amount of lives that do need medical attention that cannot afford it. Overall, a slight inconvenience for a few should not deter the masses from adopting a clearly proven system of saving people from server health concerns and giving them support to leave poverty.