Your Health: Who's Responsibility Is It?

One of Donald Trump's key presidential pledges was to remove Obamacare, a system that helped provide health care to some of the poorest people in the USA. Trump asserted that Obamacare (otherwise known as the Affordable Health Care for America Act) is too costly for the taxpayers who help subsidise it.

In contrast to the USA, the UK has the National Health Service (NHS) a system developed following the end of World War 2 that is funded by all taxpayers that provides people from all backgrounds the ability to access 'free healthcare at the point of delivery'.

But who's responsibility should it be to pay for health care? Should individuals be personally responsible for their own health? And if they need treatment, should it fall onto the taxpayer to help fund this? What happens if a condition is genetic? Or, should health care be provided whatever a person's personal history?

The recent repeal (and future replacement) of the Affordable Health Care for America Act could act as a good discussion point for those students studying 'Health' or 'Work, Poverty and Welfare'.