My topic for Life: The Book is cancer treatment and my main character that I will be focusing on in my article is my Uncle, Chuck who recently passed away because of cancer. Health care insurance was a big of his treatment because if he didn't have the insurance then he would have had to pay out of pocket for his treatments until he was poor enough to qualify for Medicare. But then they would be left with nothing. Luckily he had the insurance which would make it so you have to pay a certain amount and they will cover the rest unless they have a limit on how much they can pay. Then you would have to pay out of pocket from that point on leading you to the same spot you would be if you didn't have the insurance in the first place. But recently a law passed saying that the insurance companies can no longer put a limit on how much they will pay for you.
"more than 18,000 Americans die every year from preventable illnesses because they do not get to the doctor when they should. This is six times the number who died at the tragedy of 9/11 - but this occurs every year." This quote came from the article titled "Health Care Is a Right, Not a Privilege" by: Sen. Bernie Sanders. This quote really stuck out to me because he related it to an event in history that everyone knows about and thinks is horrible and he said that even more people die from preventable illnesses per year than the total amount of people died during 9/11.
I personally think that health care is a right. I think this because allowing people to just die from things that are completely preventable or treatable but they didnt have the money to get the treatment they needed is wrong. People shouldn't have to worry about if they can pay for the ambulance ride to the emergency room if a loved one needs it. They should be concerned about the person. I can see and understand what the other side of the argument is trying to say but I just feel that peoples lives are more important.
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