Should the government care about the citizens` heath?

According to what Kongzi said, People is the fundamental foundation of a country -No person, No nation. It means that people are the most for a country and will lead a thriving country to be powerful and prosperous. If there are no people in the country, how could the country develop to be strong. Also what is the most important thing to the people? Their health. For this result, the government should offer health service to all citizens because it will bring the U.S. such profits as the social benefits, health benefits and economic benefits.

The first reason is that offering people heath service will bring social benefits. The most obvious benefit is that people will not protest to pay taxes. If the public pay money to the government, the government should have responsibility to take care of them. As an example, if the government take money from the people, but do not care about their health. What will happen? Some people will write “Where is my money?” or “Give the money back to me!”, hand them over their heads and parade in front of the White House. To make the public live in a happy life, the government are responsible to care about their health by giving them health care. In addition, the crime rate will decrease for the reason that the money citizens cost to visit the doctor will be paid by the government. For example, if a person hears that his mother gets a cancer which costs not as little as $10,000, he will probably rob of the bank to save her mother`s life. The benefit becomes so unforgettable that the government will get stable taxes income and work easily because of crime rate decreasing.

The health benefits are the second factor to make the health service offering necessary. First, people will be in a good condition of physical health with health service. For instance, the most “famous” disease in America is obesity. According to Department of Health and Human Service,” In 2006, only four states had a prevalence of obesity less than 20%. Twenty-two states had a prevalence equal or greater than 25%; two of these states (Mississippi and West Virginia) had a prevalence of obesity equal to or greater than 30%.”( Department of Health and Human Service,2007,July 27) Otherwise, if the government refuses to provide health service to citizens, people may not visit the doctor when they get sick. Over and over, this will affect personal physical health so badly that the citizens will get fatter and fatter and the number will be bigger and bigger. On the other hand, in a long time, people with health service could not get psychological problems. For example, if AIDS affects someone and the government will not pay any money to treat him, then he cannot do anything but wait to die. What is the feeling of waiting to die? People may be disappointed, get mad or even suicide. The psychological illness is the most difficult disease to cure. Above all, health service should be given to all citizens for keeping them in good physical and psychological health by the American government.

The third consideration that the government should agree to serve American people health service is the economic benefits. The economy growth will increase with health service for all people. Obviously, if people cannot receive health service from the government, they have to visit the doctor by using their own money and everyone knows that it is very expensive to see a doctor in the USA. So the citizens will save money or spend the money on treating themselves instead of purchasing basics like cars clothes and food such as Louis Vuitton, Ford GT and KFC, which causes the economy develop slowly. Also, the taxes could be stable. For example, if people do not go shopping for extra goods, which means the government cannot have money except by raising the taxes, the taxes will go up .Then people go shopping less and less and taxes are more and more, which is a vicious circle As a matter of this fact, the government should never be any hesitated to offer health service to all citizens because everybody likes more and more money.

The last benefits, if the government will offer health service to all citizens is to remove generally and gradually discrimination which is the most serious and sensitive issue. For example, if the health service can only be given to part of all the citizens, there must be someone cannot receive the health care. So how to decide who can get or who cannot? Because of different wealth, different gender, different color of skin or different age, some persons cannot receive it or be given it in others` despised eyes. Who can bear those kind of eyes? None.Everyone have equal rights to receive the health care. Therefore the government cannot give the health service to some “special” parts of all the American public but provide it to all the US citizens.

Opponents of offering health service to all citizen argue that health service to all citizen will cost a lot of money. However, this disagreement is incomplete because if the government do not offer the health service to any one, when the workers get bad illness like SARS, the money costs to cure them is much higher than the price of health service costs. Thus the truth is health service will cost less money because the social benefits, the health benefits and the economic benefits will save American government a lot money and make the public think the government is efficient. On the whole, it is utterly reasonable for the US government to provide all the citizen health service because of such profits mentioned above.

In conclusion, the advantages of offering health service to all citizen are so enormous and it a long-term profits that nobody want to see there are always sick people who are coughing on the streets and the taxes leap by 200%. All American citizens want to live in a healthy, happy and long life. according to the article “Deaths: final data for 2004” given by National Center for Health statistics, the average life expectancy at birth in the USA in 2004 was already 77.8 years ( Miniño, A. M., Heron, M. P., Murphy, S. L. , & Kochanek, K. D, 2007, August 21). Therefore, only if everyone can get health service in the USA. The people will not get mad and more benefits. The best way that the social benefits, health benefits and the economic benefits come out and become big is offering health service to all American citizen by the government. Then the American citizens will live healthier lives and the United States of America will be stronger and more harmonious.