BHS365 4SLP

Running head: HEALTH AND MEDICINE Why it is not ethically acceptable for a hospital to charge uninsured patients more money than insured patients for the same medical procedure Name: University: Course: Tutor: Why it is not ethically acceptable for a hospital to charge uninsured patients more money than insured patients for the same medical procedure Health care is one of the most important things that every human being craves for in order to live a better life. Majority of the people have been able to sacrifice so much money in the insurance companies in order to insure their lives, a move to me that I do consider as very important one. However, some other people are not able to do the same due to either their weak financial strengths or some other crucial needs they might have. This factor has so much contributed a very heated debate across the globe on whether patients with insurance covers should experience some special rights if taken to the hospitals compared to their colleagues who are not insured (Walshe, 2003). According to me, I am never surprised by the fact that this issues never fades. It is very unethical to see that, hospitals always charge the uninsured patients very high. This is very uncouth behavior that should be addressed with a lot of seriousness. For one, it clearly brings the class of social indifference in the society, something that is very improper as we see many people being unable to raise some money charged for a particular treatment and yet we are talking about a matter of life and death in this case (Slack, Slack, 2001). It also gets into my nerves when I come to notice that, apparently most hospitals including catholic hospitals lead the list instead of fighting for the end of this behavior, this to me is never anyway close to being fair as some of these patients fail to take insuran...