Should Free Healthcare Be Available For Populations In Poverty?

In many countries, like Venezuela, the people there do not have the money to pay for medical treatment if they're sick.  This leaves more of a problem than not having the resources at all because what good is it to have them if the people cannot use them.  Imagine the state of the country if it's that underdeveloped. People don't live in mansions and drive luxurious cars they have small houses some even made of mud and walk most of the places they need to go. In a country where there aren't any ways to make a good living to pay for your own healthcare there should be some way to get treatments if something is wrong. Yes, it's true, in the United States its very obvious that people abuse the privilege but, people in the United States have more opportunities to work than people in Venezuela and other third world countries. There have been cases of people who have died because they did not go and try and get help or medication because they knew they couldn't afford it. This should not even be an option.  If someone is sick they deserve treatment and medication. Reforms were put into effect in Venezuela to improve the amount of care.  This was probably one of the best things that could have happened in Venezuela. The people living there now have a place to go for treatment.  There now should be no reason why a sick person should just die without trying to get help now that they are trying to make it available to them.

Borroto, Radames. "National Training Program for Comprehensive Community Physicians,     Venezuela." Medline. 10.4 (2008): 35-42. Web. 6 Oct. 2011. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21483335>.

Summary:  The article explains how they trained physicians in Venezuela.  Barrio Adentro was a program set up to assure primary health care to the population of an estimated 26 million people.  They established a program to train doctors for public service as well as recruiting students who had no opportunity to receive experience in their University. 

Analysis: This source is credible because it was written by a medical doctor. He was apart of the reform so it is first hand information. The source was also a journal entry and it was found on google scholar so it's more reliable than a website. It's relevant to this blog post because it talks about the people who need healthcare and how they have established a reform to help.  This also relates because it shows that they are trying to help the people that can't afford healthcare by giving them places to come to get treatment.