America's New Health Care System

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/us/politics/28clinton.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1

The current health insurance plans and health care policies in America are ones that seriously need to be evaluated. In 1948 the Declaration of Human Rights was established to ensure that the basic, fundamental, and God given rights of all human beings would be recognized. America is a nation that has chosen not to uphold the vision and goals of those who established the Declaration of Human Rights so long ago. The nation of America and its economy was built on the backs slaves. Slavery in America had long been abolished when the Declaration of Human Rights was established but there still has always been a struggle for these God given rights for some people. Article 25 in this very document states that “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.” America chooses to profit from a God given right while those uninsured by health care plans die or are forced to go bankrupt to cover medical bills.
Hillary Clinton Stands in favor of a universal health care that will make the God given right to health care more affordable to people. This new type of health care system will not discriminate nor deny people their God given right to receive health care. This is how the world should work but many people would not like to see things work this way. Clinton plans to limit the amount that Americans will pay for health care premiums to 5% - 10% of their annual income. Health care should be free but how would doctors earn their livings. Millions of Americans have problems trying to afford health care and last year the average cost of a family policy purchased by a person was almost $6,000 or $10 percent of the income earned. Some health care policies were even as high as %16 of the income earned.
Placing limitations on the premiums that health care providers set will be a costly plan to place into action but is greatly needed to ensure that everyone is able to receive their God given rights. According to candidate Hillary Clinton this plan will cost about $110 billion. She plans to make the clean up the current health care systems making things more efficient and less costly. Clinton also has a proposal to cover all 47million uninsured people in the country. The private insurance system control and cover all legal citizens of the U.S. and requires issuers of health care to cover all applicants no matter age or current health status. She will raise taxes on tobacco and give tax breaks to small business owners and take away tax cuts of people earning over $250, 000 a year set by the bush administration.
It is about time that America started giving back to those who are the backbone of this nation. It is about time that America upholds the Declaration of Human Rights and does away with greed and the ideology that profits should be made from seeing to it that people receive a basic human right such as health care. But the fact still remains that only American citizens will receive these health care benefits and not illegal immigrants. Clinton’s new plan is a greatly needed one but it must be stated that this new system should be called Americas New Health Care System, not a Universal Health Care system. It’s only right that it be called what it really is or provide health care for all the illegal residents in our nation as well. But that’s an entirely different issue that Clinton must tackle as well.