Education and Health Care

I’m not sure where to start because this is a very important topic and one that is a big issue right now in health care. I think it is good that there is discussion in classes on this. I personally have not been offered or required to take a U.S. Health Care class so I feel that I have a lot to learn, but I do have opinions from my own experiences. It would have been nice to learn more about the health care system before having to enter it completely. I feel that education is a very important part of life and you should always be open to learning anything available, especially about something as important as health care.
I am a senior at Marquette University in the Physical Therapy department. I see injuries on a regular basis, but they usually happen on the field and then I don’t get to see the experience they have with the health care system afterwards. I have had my own experiences and my family and I are still paying for those. We are in the middle class and when there was an accident in the family, the last thing I wanted to worry about was how my family was going to hold up afterwards. Consequently, I worried about it anyways.
I know the health care reform is changing right now and there will be improvements in the amount of coverage, but I agree with the idea of universal coverage. I don’t think anyone should be denied. I feel that it becomes a vicious cycle when people can’t afford care, so they don’t get regular check ups, and then they end up getting sicker because they couldn’t afford it in the first place. Or even find themselves in even greater debt after an incident. I don’t see who is benefitting in the system now, except for the specialty physicians. I know when people bring up raising taxes that others go haywire, but I would actually be up for increasing taxes to a point so everyone would be covered under health care.
I’m not sure if I agree with the point to strengthen the Medicaid and Medicare programs entirely. I do think that there should be more or stronger government systems, so maybe that reform could work, but it could also be a good idea to create a new one. Even though this might be a difficult process, sometimes complex situations require a complex solution.