Monday, September 7, 2009
Preventing Socialized Healthcare from killing America
Many Americans these days consider our healthcare system to be flawed and ineffective, and think that a change to a single payer system would solve all the problems associated with healthcare. Unfortunately, we live in something called reality, and thinking a single payer healthcare system would work is a logical fallacy. Let us imagine a world with a socialized healthcare system for a moment. Sure, little Johnny could scrape his knee, or break his arm and have no problem going to the emergency room and receiving immediate medical attention. Little Johnny is in and out of the hospital in no time. Sounds great right? Well, let’s look at this from another perspective. Thirty-four year old Jane has just found out that she has very aggressive terminal breast cancer and only has three months to live, but thankfully with chemotherapy, the cancer can be eradicated. But wait, Jane is on a socialized plan and has to be put on a waiting list before she can get her treatment, and unfortunately, that list has a six month wait on it, sorry Jane. How about a look at sixty seven year old grandma Martha’s perspective, she’s in the same position Jane is, only she doesn’t even get considered for the waiting list. Because of Martha’s age, the government doesn’t consider giving her life saving chemotherapy a wise investment simply because Martha is too old. Sure our healthcare system now doesn’t always allow little Johnny to get his stitches or cast in a timely manner, but at least Jane’s and Martha’s lives will be saved because there is no waiting list or someone out there that thinks saving seniors lives is not a wise investment. Socialized healthcare will not benefit America in any way because it is expensive, rations healthcare, and the quality of the healthcare is severely diminished.
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I like your use of pathos in appealing to peoples' emotions through those hypothetical stories. However, I would like to see some more logos. There are a lot of statistics that can be thrown in there, such as the amount of deaths due to socialized healthcare in other countries, or even the estimated cost that it will take for the U.S. to put in place such a program.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your stand. But I agree with Mark, using statistics from a reliable source would definitely improve your argument.
ReplyDeleteI liked your use of examples, but I think that using 3 was overkill. I think that you should use 2 at most. You could combine two of them like Jane and Grandma and say that "the waiting time on the list was 6 months, but it didn't matter because Grandma was too old to even be considered for the list."
Also, I noticed you had a lot of commas in the paragraph. Lots of those could/should be taken out because it is grammatically correct. Others could be taken out and then form two separate sentences. I think that would make it read and sound much better.