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In eight pages this paper tackles the contemporary problem of access to affordable healthcare in the United States and counteracts this unjust status quo with a just solution. Eight sources are listed in the bibliography.
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8 pages (~225 words per page)
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cited in Malhotra, 2009, p. 225). This injustice - in the form of denying countless Americans access to affordable healthcare - is particularly shocking because it is being perpetuated
in the United States of America, a country rich in financial and natural resources, intellect, with a government constructed on the democratic foundation that all men are created equal.
In 2009, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that there were 50.7 million Americans without any type of health insurance, an increase of nearly ten percent from the previous years total
of 46.3 million (Lubell, 2010). These current totals represent "the highest number of uninsured on record since the bureau began collecting comparable data on the uninsured in 1987" (Lubell,
2010, p. 6). Also, statistically speaking, the United States ranks first in the world in obesity and 37 percent in infant mortality (Malhotra, 2009). Furthermore, the mortality rates
of African American and Native American infants are 2.5 and 1.5 times higher than their Caucasian counterparts (Rashid, Spengler, Wagner, Melanson, Skillen, Mays, Heurtin-Roberts, & Long, 2009). The United
States is ranked 54th (tied with Fiji) with regards to providing "fairness in healthcare," while at the same time spends more than 16 percent of its gross domestic produce on
healthcare, which is the highest per person ratio in the world (Malhotra, 2009, p. 224). Why? In his text, Solving the American Health Care Crisis: Simply Common Sense,
Umang Malhotra (2009) describes the American system of healthcare as "a dysfunctional combination of both public and private funding" (p. 89). The problem of restricted healthcare access is rooted
primarily in this hodgepodge of funding, all of which invariably is funneled into maintaining the healthcare establishment and medical insurance industries instead of bankrolling better and more affordable forms of
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