Medical Ethics and Issues

Access to Healthcare

1. Introduction

Access to healthcare is an idea that evaluates the capability of the health system to outreach the people without eliminating part of it from getting healthcare services. Access to healthcare improves general health status, reduces health inequalities, and extends the life expectancy.

2. Body Paragraph 1 – Technical Aspects

Topic Sentence: Access to healthcare services encompasses 3 main elements, coverage, services, and timeliness.

Supporting detail 1: Health insurance coverage aids patients to attain access to the health care system (ESIF, 2017).

Supporting detail 2: Enhancing access to health care facilities will depend partly on ensuring that patients have a normal and continuing source of care (Repetto, Jaress, Lindsey & Bae, 2016).

Supporting detail 3: Timeliness which is the ability of the healthcare system to offer health care quickly when required (ODPHP, 2020).

3. Body Paragraph 2 –Public Policy

Transition: Notably,

Topic Sentence: Access to healthcare in the U.S. should be considered a priority in effort to improve the general public health status and the economy.

Supporting detail 1: Initiating access to healthcare would reduce the cost of health care in the U.S.

Supporting detail 2: Access to health care could make medical services affordable for all citizens.

Supporting detail 3: Access to health care could reduce the quality and accessibility of disease screening and treatment.

Body Paragraph 3 -Arguments

Transition: Moreover,

Topic Sentence: Proponents assert that access to health care can enhance public health and lower general health care expenditure.

Supporting detail 1: Improve to access to health can help save lives.

Supporting detail 2: Right to health care access is internationally identified human right.

Supporting detail 3: Providing access to health care services to everyone is good for economic growth

4. Body Paragraph 4 - Arguments

Transition: However,

Topic Sentence: majority of the opposing side are policymakers who argues that the right to health care should be individual responsibility and not the United States government role.

Supporting detail 1: A right to access to health care could increase the U.S. deficit and debt

Supporting detail 2: Increase in waiting time for medical services

Supporting detail 3: Can lead to increase in tax

5. Opinion and Conclusion

Overall, for effective access to health care, the federal government needs to come up with the health care Act that will do more good than harm to the people and also increase the number of health care providers in the future.

6. References

Cooper, M. (2015). The theology of emergency: Welfare reform, US foreign aid and the faith- based initiative. Theory, Culture & Society, 32(2), 53-77.

ESIF, (2017). Access to healthcare. Retrieved from http://www.esifundsforhealth.eu/sites/default/files/201902/Mapping%20Document%20ac cess%20to%20healthcare.pdf

ODPHP, (2020). Access to Health Services. Retrieved from https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/Access-to-Health- Services/ebrs

ProCon.org. (n.d.) (2020). Should All Americans Have the Right (Be Entitled) to Health Care? Retrieved from https://healthcare.procon.org/#argument-22-popup

Repetto, J. B., Jaress, J., Lindsey, J., & Bae, J. (2016). Investigation of health care components in transition IEPs. Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 39(1), 4-11.

Singh, D. A. (2015). Essentials of the US health care system. Jones & Bartlett Publishers.

Schmidt, H., Gostin, L. O., & Emanuel, E. J. (2015). Public health, universal health coverage, and Sustainable Development Goals: can they coexist?. The Lancet, 386(9996), 928-930.