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A large problem with the American healthcare system is the gap in quality of care between wealthy and low-income Americans. Even neighborhoods within the same city could see massive disparities in healthcare. Rather than big money subsidizing small money, creating equality, big money simply gets better perks, while small money is left with little to no perks. This perpetuates a system where people born into wealth get to take advantage of state-of-of-the-art healthcare while those who aren't as lucky get to endure disability or simply pass away. It is worth noting that there is a strong correlation between low incomes and color of skin, which suggests that not only is racism still present in America, it severely impacts people in way in which pulling themselves up by their bootstraps will not solve.

The current system in America is costly, and leaves citizens to mostly rely on their employers to provide health insurance for them. This, again, leaves low-income citizens wondering when it's their turn to get perks. Low-income jobs generally don't provide health insurance, or the insurance they do provide is lackluster. With this system, those in need of the most help receive the least.

While it would be inappropriate to suggest that the US has poor healthcare, because our healthcare is actually top notch, it is reasonable to suggest that access to healthcare is poor. While we may have advanced technology and big money backing research, all of that is reserved for the people who can afford to pay for it.

Expanding Medicaid would help our country in multiple ways. For starters, having one entity doing business with the health sector on behalf of all citizens would reduce administrative costs and reduce the amount of healthcare money being sucked out of the system in the form of profits for insurance companies. This reduction in cost could be spread across the board and reduce overall medical costs. Second, for the capitalists out there, expanding healthcare coverage would allow more citizens to enter the workforce. More citizens working and earning their way means less people relying on social security, and a higher rate of productivity across the USA as a whole.