Resolved: The United States ought to guarantee universal health care for its citizens.

definitions are:
Universal Health Care: Universal health care is the belief that all citizens should have access
to affordable, high-quality medical care.
Value: John Stuart Mills theory of Utilitarianism
Criterion: Rousseaus Social Contract
The Social contract is an agreement within a state regarding the rights and responsibilities
of the state and its citizens. All members within a society have agreed to the terms of the
social contract by their choice to stay within the society. Automatically the criterion of the
Social Contract stands because the resolution states citizens. And as citizens we have chosen
to participate in the social contract. The constitution was founded upon the beliefs of the
social contract. And if the people chose to get rid of the social contract they also chose to get
rid of the constitution. Without the social contract there is no government. Life would revert
into a state of anarchy and a state of nature. Because without the social contract the
government cannot provide for its citizens because there would be no government. It would
be every man for themself, which would not support the value of utilitarianism. Universal
Health Care strictly violates the social contract which would mean we would lose our
government and the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
Contention 1 Social Welfare programs are unsustainable.
Universal health care is comparable to food stamps, housing subsidies, and welfare, all of
which are charity programs. Distributing charity to society makes people lazy, inhibiting
their productivity and decreasing the incentive for people to strive for excellence. Similarly,
just as with every other charity program, it is likely that health care services would be taken
advantage of by people who did not need them or that they would be used excessively and
to the point where they would no longer be economically beneficial. It is more likely that if
seeing a doctor does not cost you anything, you will see them about non-problems, ie. A
common cold or a small cut that does not require stiches. Since there would be no financial
barrier or one that is greatly reduced if universal health care was adopted in the United
States, health care services would be used at a much higher rate. It is estimated that with
universal health care it would cost America 1.5 trillion dollars a year, and is going to
substantially increase. the congressional budget office.
Sub Point B Universal Health Care would create a huge influx of patients
UHC would also create a huge influx of people who do not need them over-using these
services. It is also likely that doctors would become overburdened by the excessive influx of
patients that would come into hospitals and doctors offices. If the affirmative is correct in
saying that many more people would go see a doctor if health care was more accessible,
then doctors would become enormously overburdened and it is likely that the quality of
care would be reduced. Also is that competition over health care funds in the free market,
without governmental intervention, increases competition and the incentive for providing
higher quality medical technology and service, which results in better care and better

research and development. If the United States switches to a system in which this
competition is reduced, it becomes more probable that the system as a whole will become
lazier and less competitive, meaning, again, that quality of care will decline.