Among the welfare state policies that are hotly debated these days is Universal Basic Income (UBI). But even before that debate, the U.S. is quite involved in a highly partisan debate on universal healthcare. The U.S. is known in the world for its overpriced, private, for-profit healthcare system that often fails to deliver adequate healthcare except the few rich or the few lucky lower-middle classes who happen to get jobs with good benefits that include a decent healthcare coverage. Even in those cases, healthcare costs and prescription drugs are still much more expensive than either other advanced industrialized countries or even many underdeveloped countries. As a result tens of millions of Americans are either uninsured or underinsured.
*But how can this issue be solved? Should the U.S. have universal healthcare? For instance, it could be organized by the government with a public insurance program, where government negotiates with doctors, medical equipment, and pharmaceutical companies directly for the best price as in most parts of Europe. But neither of those companies nor the for-profit health sector would easily agree with this and they would block those efforts as long as they do not make profit with government contracts. Then what can be done?
In short, would you support universal health care? If yes, why and what kind of system do you have in mind?
If not, why not? What are the pros and cons?
*Second, do you think the government should go further to provide universal basic income to eradicate rampant poverty and economic inequality in the U.S. as in some parts of Europe? Would that work in the U.S. given the “political culture of self-reliance” and strong convictions about “personal responsibility of the poor”? Is it a good idea for the U.S.? Why or why not?
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