Healthcare research

 Most recently, pertaining to the health care system, President Obama introduced a new bill that gives uninsured and self-employed people a chance to purchase insurance through the state (Nolen and Jackson). However, it is not a national Health Care Bill like Truman’s or Clintons. On one side of the healthcare argument there are people who think that everyone should be required to pay higher taxes and other things in exchange for health care from the government (Appleby). “We can’t have as a nation 40 million people-or in my state, half a million- saying “I don’t have insurance and if I get sick I want someone else to pay” said former Massachusetts Governor Mit Romney. Romney thinks that everyone must buy health care and they will get good treatment because they’ve bought it from the government (Appleby). This is compared to having to buy car insurance in this article (Appleby). However, others against Romney’s view say that the government is the cause of problems like people being without health care in the first place (Universal Health Care: What’s the Debate About?). People who argue for no government intervention say that the government causes the problems in the first place (Weeks). Free Market Cure is dedicated to correctly diagnosing the problems with the U.S. health care system and promoting solutions which preserve and extend individual liberty. Our central premise is that many problems in our medical system are either caused or exacerbated by government intervention — and that a strong dose of Capitalism is the cure for what ails the U.S. health care system.” What people recognize in America as modern health care began in the 1920’s when doctors began to charge more for their services than people could pay easily. An administrator at Baylor University in Texas wanted to help those who couldn’t afford doctors, so he created Blue Cross, which spread to other parts of the country as a non-profit (Noah). The Blues/Blue Cross kept their costs low in exchange for tax breaks. In the 1940’s commercial insurers came in to the medical market. During the second world war private insurers began to come more into the medical market, businesses began to offer their workers health insurance, so private insurers did the same (Noah). By this time the U.S. government intervened in health care for the first time, by exempting businesses (including private ones) from income tax related to health care. During Truman’s presidency-after the Second World War, he proposed a national health care plan. It failed because his opponents said there was no need for national health care with the existence of Blue Cross. After this private insurers became larger in the medical market. Eventually the private insurers began to turn away patients who would have not been previously been turned away. The private insurers grew larger than the private insurers by the 1970’s, until Blue Cross begin doing the same thing as the private insurers to get money (Noah).