Argumentative Essay: Outline

Title: Universal Healthcare: Should the Government Provie Free Healthcare for All Citizens?

Thesis Statement: Healthcare is a human right, not just a privilege.

I. Introduction
A. Our health is important, for it is interconnected in our daily activities.
B. Not everyone are privileged to healthcare resources.
C. Government and states are responsible to uphold human rights for all citizens.
D. Healthcare is a human right.

II. Body
A. Right to Health
1. Human rights include right to health.
2. States are obligated to perform this right in a system of disease prevention,
treatment and control.
3. First recognized by World Health Organization
4. Affirmed in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights (ICESCR).
B. Right to Free Healthcare: Why is it controversial?
1. Healthcare has become expensive and not everyone can afford it.
2. Free healthcare is a self-defeating argument.
3. Rights of the medical laborers, and the government taxing a citizen for another
individual’s needs.
C. Pros/ Advantages of Free Healthcare
1. Increase Access to Health Facilities and Services
2. Improved Health Outcome
3. Terminate Competitions
4. Reduced Financial Burden.
 D. Cons/ Disadvantages of Free Healthcare
1. Markets being distorted
2. Monopoly
3. Excess Demand
4. Shortage
5. Tax Dollars or the Increase of Tax
E. Free Healthcare Policy from WHO
1. Sample services of free healthcare
2. Impact of Free Healthcare and its aims
3. WHO’s response to the implemented rights
F. Healthcare in the Philippines
1. Universal Health Care (UHC) or Kalusugang Pangkalahatan (KP)
2. Philippine Health Insurance Corporation also known as “PhilHealth”
3. Pros and Cons of Local Health Insurance in the Philippines
4. Strategic ways to attain Universal Healthcare in the Philippines includes
Financial Risk Protection, Improved Access to Quality Hospitals and Health
Care Facilities and Attainment of Health-related MDGS.

III. Conclusion
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