Hot-Button Issues in Roanoke, Virginia - Universal Healthcare or Universal Failure?

Roanoke, VA - Healthcare is a shaky subject for many Americans. Without a doubt a lot of people are not able to afford healthcare when it is not supplied by their workplace (IE: temp workers). Moreover, as temping agencies continue to grow in popularity the issue of healthcare becomes even fiercer of a battleground around the nation.

Most temp agencies around Roanoke do not provide healthcare for the first part of employment. Moreover, when you change assignments that healthcare might lapse and you might have to go through another waiting period on the next assignment. Because of this a lot of temp workers will forgo the agency insurance and pick up private medical insurance... if they can afford it. Since these people will not get a group plan or rate the cost of insurance is likely to be quite high as well, which is not offset enough by the higher temp pay rates. Regardless of the circumstances these people get the chance at healthcare.

What about people who do not get such a chance? Should men and women who simply cannot afford healthcare over other necessities such as food and shelter go without protection? How about homeless people? There are a variety of reasons people do not have health coverage, but is healthcare not a basic human right? Every human being deserves the chance to have their health looked after not just those who have enough money to pay for it.

In light of this we do have programs such as Medicaid to help out people who cannot afford healthcare. Now it would seem that everyone has access to healthcare either by paying for it or being given it. Why then is universal healthcare for everyone in America such a big issue? After all the United States is the only developed country with private insurance surrounded by other countries using universal healthcare. Perhaps people think it is the next step in America's evolution since so many other countries have already gone down that course.