Blog 1: One Challenge

One challenge that may exist in the next four years is universal healthcare. I am aware that the majority of my classmates will disagree with me after hearing their opinions in our class discussion. However I feel that the cons of universal healthcare outweigh the good. Doctors in the United States are highly educated and trained. The process to become a doctor of any sort is grueling and very difficult. Yet when they overcome the hurdles of training, they are highly qualified and reap the rewards of the time, money, and effort they spent in order to become doctors. So if healthcare is altered to accomodate everyone with an ache or a pain, those doctors that were so highly trained will be no more. Who would go through the process of becoming a medical professional only to make the salary of a public school teacher? The qualification of our doctors, as well as sheer number of doctors, would exponentially decrease. I don't believe that our healthcare system is perfect by any means, but solutions to this system are not found in a socialist system because America is not socialist. To prevent universal healthcare we as Americans must reform our healthcare system that does not compromise the democracy and capitalism that our country was built upon.