Comment on Our Texan World's publication
Health care as part of the social responsibility seems been a taboo in America, since the
topic is so divided between people who think that the government should care
about the health of their citizens and, the people who don’t want to have any
governmental intervention into their medical bills or visits.
Part of the taboo, in my opinion, comes from the lack of
information from the people with resources, who think that if the government is
involved in health care, they “have” to go to the governmental medical
services, when actually they can still spend the same amount of money in their
private services. Another misinterpretation from people who is disagree with
the government providing medical services is that individual taxes would go to
pay the health of others. It might sound logical for some people and, for
others it can sound very individualistic and selfish. However, for good or bad,
the taxes that every individual pays benefit many other things to that ‘other
people.’
I understand that many people also would recalls religious
values to be opposed to some services that Plan Parenthood provides. But I
think that data and numbers talk by themselves when we refer to domestic
violence, rape, teen pregnancy. We
should add that for the same religious reason, the adoption of the policy of
“abstinence-plus” is not intended as best option for teens, but to avoid the
uncomfortable talk of sex education and responsibility.
The fight against Plan Parenthood also blocks the access to
contraception for poor people, who are the most affected in the case of a
supernumerous families. Sadly, these actions have a chain effect on poverty,
medium and high-level education access, quality of parenting, and jobs. I think
that this fight is also part of a fight with women empowerment and their capacity
to plan for better life.
Health should be a right to access for everybody and it
should be part of the social responsibility of the government as part of
alleviating the poverty and segregation. People with economic resources would
always go to better services, but, it is fair for poor people to have health
care too.
No comments:
Post a Comment