Part of the problem is that employers are trying to reduce expenses by offering the bare minimum to their employees as adequate insurance coverage. They are cheating their fellow citizens out of essential health care benefits. Money is not the most important aspect in life, although it is difficult to to keep that focus when society is throwing wealth-oriented living your way. The well-being and survival of our fellow people is much more crucial to existence than capital. When your life comes to an end, is the amount of money you once had most important? The answer to that question is why universal insurance coverage must be a set standard, not an option.

I believe that access to health care must be mandatory for all citizens. Equal efforts for access can be based on the income of each family as a payment to cover expenses nationally. But there comes a point in which income of a family is just too low to charge further. At that moment our government should step in and begin a support system. Inside that system approval and proof of worthiness must be systematically checked. The quantity of health care does not have to be the only thing to increase: quality should go along with it. The larger the number of patients, the more doctors should be inspired to achieve greater success in their fields. But that's typically not the case. Sadly, some doctors act as if they do not care for their patients on a higher level over just performing their daily jobs. Whether it be a defense mechanism to better handle loosing lives or the actual absence of feeling, it is not helping. Money should not appear to be the biggest motive in doctors' career fields, saving lives should be.

Honestly, we need some sort of critiquing method for health care professionals. I see websites like Carfax.com and I wonder, why can't we have the history of doctors so easily accessible like the history of our cars? It's not like they've never made a mistake. Doctors make mistakes just like you and me and Americans should not blindly put faith in the first doctor available. I'd like to know credentials of a doctor prior to my decision to let them cut me open and perform procedures on me; maybe others would like to know also. Medical doctors must be held accountable for their actions so that the standard of health care may increase and the ominous possibility of malpractice will decrease. Codes of ethics for medical doctors' information do exist, but I think if a person cares enough about the quality of care they are going to receive, they should be able to obtain research of a medical individual that is up to par.

Universal coverage is only the beginning. Focus should also be allotted to expansion of health care accounts and regulating our markets that supply our insurance agencies so all can work together to create better policies Americans deserve. You are the only one capable of leading a policy change such as the one I've mentioned throughout the United States. So please, step up to the plate and create a health care system that is widespread. All Americans are deserving of the very best in health care; the ability to give them superior care is in your hands and your hands alone. I trust you will make the decision that applies to all of us.