Everyone Should be Required to Have Insurance?

USA Today Editorial

In the Editorial from USA today titled "Everyone Should be Required to Have Insurance" argues the fact that the GOP needs to start embracing the idea that everyone that can afford to have healthcare, should have healthcare. I completely agree with the authors argument that everyone needs to start getting health care. The author is trying to reach out to the general public that may not be as aware of the proceedings of the GOP debates. I feel that the author makes a valid argument in this editorial. The author gives example of how all of the candidates have dodged the topic of health care time and time again. They also go into detail on how the few responses the candidates have given have been hypocritical of what they have previously backed. The authors main argument is that the GOP needs to be backing the recent mandate which would make anyone that is able to afford health care have to purchase it. The author provides plenty of evidence to support the idea that the GOP needs to start touching on health care. The author makes another valid point on why people should be accepting the mandate when they mention the process of how hospitals charge others more money in order to cover the cost of people that can't afford to pay at all when they go to a hospital. I completely agree with the author that the candidates need to start backing this issue. It's hard not to be swayed with there is such blatant evidence that our system of "health care" we currently have is not helping. The author mentions how Ron Paul unsuccessfully was able to help out his campaign mangers financial woes after his death in 2008 even though, he claimed that people pulling their funds together would solve the problem of having immense medical bills. This along with other examples of how the system we have is not working and that our health care system needs to change.