Written by: Kriti Nepal - 24010, Grade X
Posted on: 18 March, 2022
Health care facilities are something that is important and should be equally accessible to people globally. In countries all around the world, financing the required health care facilities has become a difficult problem. Even financially stable people have a difficult time covering their entire expenses on these services, Whereas it might even drive one to extreme poverty. I feel health care facilities should be made free because it could save the lives of people. Countless people have lost their lives when it could have been saved by minimum health care facilities but they lost their life simply because it was too expensive and inaccessible.
Having free health care will make the life of all humans easier. If health care facilities are made free, it will help the people get insurance. It relieves people as they no longer will have to experience fear of needing health services but not having access due to poor financial status. Having good health care facilities will help one fulfill quality of life. When the health care services are made free of cost, the public will have easy and timely access to health care facilities, it will help the life expectancy increase. When people are exposed to free health care services, it will be less likely for them to develop a severe illness as they can get free and easy access to regular health check-ups that helps them to diagnose a disease at an early stage before it gets more serious. This helps a person to stay healthy. It will help people save money used on the expense of hospital bills and use it for other important things like quality education. The access to quality health care services is a right and not a privilege. When the people get free health facilities and services, the population gets healthier and it contributes towards the development of the economy of the nation since the population can work harder. Also when health care facilities are made free, the number of health care workers of a country will increase as the cost for medical studies will drop and will be affordable for all. It will also help the population get access to advanced, complicated and fast health care which could only have been accessible from an emergency room that would cost a lot of money. It will also reduce the unhealthy competition between hospitals that care only about the income and not more of the patients. When the healthcare facilities and services are made free of cost, it will help the people from poor financial status to access the hospitals with well equipped machinery, and get good facilities.
Hence, I feel that if health services and facilities are made free, then the population will have easier life, higher life expectancy, fulfillment of quality of life, get insurance, many lives will get saved, easy access to health care services and facilities, the children will have better health since they’ll be exposed to good health services from a young age, the economy of the nation will increase, unhealthy competitions between hospitals will decrease and the number of health workers will also increase.
