Kerry Election essays

Health Care and the Bush/Kerry Election essays In a society where we are constantly faced with contagious diseases, incurable medical conditions, and rising health care costs many of the American residents still go on to live their everyday lives without health insurance. With this year being an election year this issue is a hot topic in the campaigns and debates between President Bush and John Kerry. President Bush's Vision is that the health care in the United States today is affordable for the people. But if this is true why are there so many children going without the proper medical attention that they need when they get sick. On the other Hand, John Kerry hardly speaks about health care in his campaign's, and when he does, it directed more towards the middle class, not the people who need it which is the poor lower class. With the economy being bad and many people losing their jobs they are faced with the fact that they will also not have any health insurance. The candidates make promises of what they will do if they are elected in order aid in the battle of heath care but may of their promises are just empty promises. The flu season is upon u s right now and our president George W. Bush says that he did not put a hole on the flu vaccines that the country needs, but the British blocked the flu vaccine. Right now with the shortage of the vaccine the only people that are allowed to get the vaccine are the people that are "high risk." But who's to determine who is at risk and who is not at risk of getting the virus. For the people who are not illegible to receive the vaccine, they will have to take the risk of getting the virus; then if they get the flu and don't have any health insurance, this could lead to them contracting other illness that could be very harmful to their health. The reason tha t Bush claimed we did not get the vaccine is that they were contaminated. "We relied upon a company out of England to provide about half of the flu vaccines for the US, and...