People Or Profits?

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Term Paper Title	People Or Profits?
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People or Profits?
In Almeda County, a private hospital turned away a woman in labor because the hospital's computer showed that she didn't have insurance. Hours later, her baby was born dead in a county hospital.
In San Bernardino, a hospital surgeon sent a patient who had been stabbed in the heart to a county medical center after examining him and declaring his condition stable. The patient arrived at the county medical center dying, he suffered a cardiac arrest, and died.
These two hospitals shifted these patients to county facilities not for medical reasons, but for economic ones -- the receiving hospitals feared they wouldn't be paid for treating the patient.  What’s right?  People or profit?
Should there be death or tragedy at the result of poverty and high health care costs, or should a business such as a hospital lose millions everyday to give health care to those who can’t afford it?  An average person like me would feel for  the person who could not afford sufficient health insurance, and as in the case above, the baby inside that mother’s womb didn’t choose its financial situation, or its parents.  That baby didn’t ask to be born, and it wasn’t given a chance to live.  It wasn’t necessarily the doctors fault, and it wasn’t even his or her decision, because of business.  Business has moved to the heart of health care, a place once relatively cushioned from the pursuit of profit that drives the rest of the U.S. economy.  Throughout the history of the United States, medical institutions have largely been non-profit establishments existing primarily to serve the community.   But during the past 20 years, the number of for-profit health care facilities has grown at an exceeding rate.
     I think that a society as wealthy as ours has a moral obligation to meet the basic needs of all of its members.  I believe that every American, rich or poor, should have access to the health care he or she needs, but the rising costs of care and a growing unwillingness of insurance companies to cover these costs, along with government spending in other areas, have almost totally restricted access to health care for the poor, the aged, and those with tragic health problems.
I pointed out earlier that an unborn child shouldn’t be turned down for health care, but neither should a man with a knife through his heart.  It is getting harder and harder for the aged and those with tragic health problems that can afford health insurance, to even get insured.  Take an AIDS pa...

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