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TOPIC: SOME PEOPLE THINK THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD PAY FOR HEALTH CARE AND

EDUCATION,

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THERE

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NO

AGREEMENT

ABOUT

WHETHER

IT

IS

THE

GOVERNMENTS RESPONSIBILITY. WHAT IS YOUR OPINION?


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Not surprisingly, health care and education are two areas of government priority in most, if not
all, of the countries around the world. However, many tend to see the both areas as citizens
individual responsibilities. This belief is partly right. The government and the citizens should be
jointly responsible for the cost of education and health care service.

The first point to note is that government funding for education is of great benefit to families with
children and the society as a whole. There are occasions on which parents cannot afford the cost
of their education and their savings are meagre, compared with the formidable tuition fees being
charged by a tertiary institution. Poor academic experience can impair ones employability and
put him or her into a seriously disadvantaged position. Government spending addresses this
issue by providing aspiring students with access to a comfortable learning experience. In this
knowledge based society, possibly nothing is more valuable than the access to education.
Similarly, an individual should receive health care treatments, especially lifesaving ones, whether
he or she has the means to pay. Access to health care is the basic human right and a measure to
ensure a decent standard of living. In the event of the need for urgent or emergency treatment,
government spending enables suffers to receive immediate health care services. This is the
fulfilment of the governments responsibility to its members. Needless to say, health care
treatment costs are, in general, unaffordable to low income families. Governments financial
support is therefore required.
Despite these facts, it is immoral that individuals shirk responsibility and try to pass all medical
costs on to the government. In view of the fact that the government raises financing primarily to
taxpayers income, individuals over-exploited of a health care system will in fact add a heavy
burden on those hardworking and good-hearted citizens. Particular attention should be paid on
those people whose health problems are attributed to their poor personal living habits (smoking,
drinking, substance use or inactive lifestyle). In such cases, they should not be entitled for public
medical services.
As suggested above, education and healthcare services are of primary importance to citizens,
and the government has the responsibility to ensure that those services are available and
affordable. However, it is not to say that the government should bear the costs of all healthcare
and educational services that the citizens currently enjoy.
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