Secure Outcome

What does a "secure" outcome look life for the American Health Care Reform look like? Well in order to answer this question, we must first know what a secure outcome is. There are many different takes on what security for a person could be. Aristotile had one view saying that it is the role of the government to promote virtuous behavior in its citizens and therefore, in this issue, it would be the government taking control over our health care in order to make us be more protected in case of an emergency. This option would be the logic of the polis. The other choice is J.S. Mill's take on what a secure person is. Mill believed that it was in individual's job to determine what would make them happiest and it was the government's job to stay away so people can create their own happiness.
Using Maslow's Hierarchy of needs, it is easier to determine what determines a person's security/happiness. A person obviously needs the basic necessities of life such as air, food, water, etc., but after that, things become more of a debate. We need all of the following but the amounts of them are different for each person. Humans were built to interact with each other and therefore, we need a sense of love and belonging that friendship, family, and relationships bring us. Heading more towards my issue, everybody needs some sort of safe feeling which can come from numerous things like health, property, morality, employment, family, achievement, and more. As much as i dissagree with this, the goverment feels it is their duty to help those people who don't have, for whatever reason, health care. A secure outcome for my issue would be for the government to just spend all their money to make sure every person in the US is safe and has a feeling of security while here. This might bring more debt to the government, but that would be o.k. because it would be giving all the people who reside in the US a form of health care that would always be there in case of an emergency. This might not be good for those people who, in order to feel secure, have to have that feeling of achievement when they work hard to earn money to pay for their own health care and other things in life. Overall, the government would need to take control over America's health care in order to give everybody a sense of safety rather than just letting people take care of themselves. This is how Aristotle would have seen it best...the logic of the polis.