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Chad Black
Mrs. Watkins
English Comp II
March 3, 2017
Curing the Modern Healthcare System
Obesity is an ailment that has plagued first world society since the

latter half of the 1990s. People have blamed many different factors, but I

have decided it that society is something that yearns to be controlled. By this

I mean that the government needs to look out for society like implementing

certain guidelines that lead the lesser minded and help they grow into a

healthier, happier citizen. These guidelines could the form of a healthcare

system that is enacted federally to be sure that everyone has a chances to

take advantage of the benefits. Also to assist in fixing the current issue we

will start with children and then work our way to adults. While improving

current healthcare policies to make it follow more realistic guidelines,

If we are to achieve a successful healthcare system, then we must

start with the children of our country. We will achieve this by implementing

better food programs for Children in schools, and no we arent going to have

the crisis that we had with Mrs. Obamas National School Lunch Program.

World Health Organization (WHO) figures are cited to support the contention that

across the world, children are getting fatter (Jan Wright, Framing the Mother, pg.

3). I believe that parents are to blame, because if your childs lunch is lackluster or

malnourished then you should speak up and have it Changed for the sake of your

children. We would Start by setting up an added tax that would help the out food
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programs, and also put a check on the schools spending to make sure that they are

using the money accordingly. The check would help reassure people that are paying

tax making it less problematic for them.

The second part of my plan is to require children to take some sort of

physically educational force that allows them to get the exercise they need.

This would help assist the food program all while instilling a sense for

healthiness after we have trained them to work out and shown them how to

effectively workout safely. On top of the newly required physical course, I

would require them to take a course in nutrition to teach them how to eat

healthier. Also I will require them to take a course teaching them how to

prepare healthy meals and read food labels.

Next we will move over to the parents and discuss the plans I have to

educate them. Some people would argue that parents cannot be to blame,

but revert this Paternalism is typically understood as making someone do

something she does not want to do, or keeping her from doing something she does

want to do, in order to increase her welfare ( The Value of Unhealthy Eating and

the Ethics of Healthy Eating Policies 2017). Every year and only parents will

be required to take a free class that would show them how to budget better

and how to make more nutritious meals for their children. This would seem a

little absurd, but the class will be optional and if one does choose to take this

class they will be subject to tax deductions. With this kind of incentive, I

think that a higher expected rate would take the class.

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Next would be the tax deductions that could be implemented into the

healthcare system for being healthy. After all it is called a Healthcare system,

so why not reward your citizens for choosing a healthy lifestyle and taking

less risks. I believe that if we input tax deductions into the healthcare system

for people that put in the time and work to be healthy should be rewarded.

On this Earth there isnt a single person living that doesnt live with some

sort of motivation. With this perspective we should assume that if we

motivate Citizens to be healthy with tax incentives. That is only the start of a

much needed improvement to the healthcare system.

After that there will be a much needed update to the health insurance issue

that has been bothering the nation for a while now. We need to figure out

whether or not to use a federal healthcare system or separate insurance

companies. This problem has been affecting people for as long as I can

remember and it must be solved if we are going to have healthier people.

When Hurricane Katrina hit the Baton Rouge, La., area in 2005, I

worked with others in our community to turn an abandoned Kmart store into

an improvised hospital to care for the casualties. Politics did not matter. This

was a natural disaster, and it demanded an all-out, all-hands-on-deck

response. The same is true of the national epidemic of obesity.

-Bill Cassidy (Obesity Epidemic Requires All-Out

Response)
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If we go federal we are going to have to overhaul the mediocre system

we have now, reset the guidelines, and also have a website that actually

works. After we have finished passing those laws and fixing IT, we can then

start setting new fixed premiums that go based off their health to help

implement the afore mentioned tax incentives. People like to argue that this

would ruin the jobs of many doctors and damage the economy, but doctors

just seem to be greedy.

Now if we go based off of separate insurance companies than we are

going to need to have some guidelines so that people can get healthcare.

Especially if we are going to have penalties for not having health insurance

during tax season. How we fix this is by making insurance companies require

to take you even if they have a pre-existing condition. If the companies start

to lose money, then the tax I mentioned early in my proposition would be

sent their way to remedy that. While also emplacing the tax deductions to

give people more money for use in their day to day lives.

These are just a few of my plans that I believe we could use to improve

the healthcare system. If we just motivate people to live a healthier life than

we can all fight obesity together while being rewarded for it. Also who

doesnt want to pay less taxes, because I personally havent met anyone

who would not enjoy less taxes.

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Citation
Bill Cassidy, Obesity Epidemic Requires All-Out Response CQ Roll Call June

12, 2012

Accessed Online: February 19, 2017

http://search.proquest.com.argo.library.okstate.edu/docview/1021380864/ab

stract/BA39AC7717D4D4FPQ/9?accountid=4117

Jan Wright, Suzanne Fraser, and JaneMaree Maher, Framing the Mother:

Childhood

obesity, maternal responsibility and care University of Wollongong Research

Online 2010

Accessed Online: February 20, 2017

http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2070&context=edupapers
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Barnhill, Anne; King, Katherine F; Kass, Nancy; Faden, Ruth The Value of

Unhealthy Eating and the Ethics of Healthy Eating Policies Kennedy Institute

of Ethics Journal September, 2017

Accessed Online: February 20, 2017

http://search.proquest.com.argo.library.okstate.edu/docview/1628558619/ab

stract/45F5D44878184BD0PQ/1?accountid=4117