In many societies in the world, the population is ageing rapidly and this is leading to an unsustainable increase in the cost of public healthcare. A nation’s population should pay for their healthcare provision in the future. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

I don’t agree that a developed nation should pay for the healthcare

provision

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of its

aging

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population, as

this

will lead to bankruptcy for that nation. Even though there are many advantages to providing free

health

care

for every citizen,

such

as protecting the

health

of poor

people

, the current

health

care

system is too expensive to provide it without charge to everyone as they grow old in the future. As

countries

become more highly developed in their economies and social support systems, families have fewer children and the population as a whole begins to age. There is an economic reason for

this

trend, in that rural and

agricultural based

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economies require a lot of farm or factory labour, and having many children can prove to be an economic advantage as their wages often contribute to their family’s wealth. Because these

countries

have lower GDP’s, they can only afford basic

health

services for their

people

, and whether it is free or requires payment, there is usually a sufficient base of productive workers who are earning money and paying taxes to pay for their

health

care

systems. The problem lies with developed

countries

whose

health

care

systems are more technologically complex and whose personnel are more highly trained and paid.

This

leads to a prohibitively expensive

care

system in these developed

countries

with low birthrates and a much smaller pool of workers paying taxes to pay for the

health

care

of large numbers of aged

people

who are retired and not contributing to the tax base. In

this

situation, the country will soon find healthcare costs spiralling out of control while at the same time the number of workers paying taxes decreases.

In addition

, older

people

usually have more

health

problems and longer hospital stays, which only compounds the entire problem for rich

countries

with

aging

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populations. The obvious solution to

this

problem is to reduce the need for a

health

care

system in the

first

place. Many poor and underdeveloped

countries

don’t have many western-style hospitals because they have

community based

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healers who use herbal remedies and therapies that they can afford. The overall

health

of these nations, as long as they are not at war or suffering from a natural disaster, is often better than that of developed

countries

when counting rates of cancer, heart disease, which are the leading causes of death in the developed world.

This

trend can

also

be attributed to a less polluted environment in these mostly pre-industrial societies, as well as healthier diets and more physical activity. Industrial societies could practice preventative medicine, including eliminating

junk-food

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and encouraging physical fitness, to increase the

health

of their populations and achieve savings.

Also

, if developed

countries

returned to natural healing and remedies

instead

of technological ones they could greatly reduce the costs involved and easily afford to provide free

care

for everyone.