For a country that is on the cutting edge of technology we still cannot take care of one another. Just take a look around at your friends, your neighbors, family, in general no one looks or feels healthy. And with all the drug resistance strains of bacteria introduced into our society one can only imagine what horrors await us. Penicillin resistant tuberculosis, staph infections, and flesh eating bacteria to name a few. But yet we can go half a world away to heal the sick and dying in a third world country, leaving our elderly and young to suffer without help just for the simple fact that they are not insured. This is the problem, corporate medicine. What is to be said about a society who puts profit over life? We must take care of one another first before we can solve the rest of the world's problems. Socialized medicine is not the answer; we definitely do not want the government to have any more power than it already has, especially when it comes to one's health. Breaking up the monopoly of the corporate medical and insurance companies, and holding them accountable for their actions this would be a good place to start. Stopping illegal immigration would slow down the introduction of new diseases into our population, and anyone who applies for citizenship legally should be screened. We need neighborhood hospitals and clinics that will promote community-wide health and awareness,"a grassroots effort". Doctors and nurses need to make all the decisions in regards to one's health as they're trained to do without consulting an insurance company. And take time for oneself jobs and bills will still be there, I promise.
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