United States Health Care
This discussion presents the opportunity for you to address the inequality of access to healthcare in the United States using moral and ethical reasoning. There is overwhelming evidence that social inequalities affect health outcomes. Many argue that lack of health care access related to poverty is a human rights concern in the United States and that should be subject to public and social justice inquiry. As such, the Affordable Care Act was implemented to promote health equity. Prepare and post a response to the following prompt:
From the viewpoint of a social justice activist, present an argument to a Congressional committee as to the ethical and moral reasons for supporting the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Through research, anticipate an item of debate that will be offered to you by the panel and use at least one ethical theory or perspective from the text to support your evidence of moral imperative.
Your initial post should be at least 300 words in length. Support your claims with examples from the required material(s) and/or other scholarly sources, and properly cite any references in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
- Mosser, K. (2013). Ethics and social responsibility (2nd ed.). San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.
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Over the last few decades research shows that there have been major problems for most of Americas’ citizens in access to good health care. However, a large number has been deprived of the kind of good health care that they need due to the market-based kind of health insurance structure in the United States which has caused human crisis over a period of time now. An estimated number of around 50 million American citizens lack health insurance that makes it a nightmare for them to access good health care. On the other hand high numbers of preventable deaths has also been recorded of up to 100, 000 people per annum, as a result……………..
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