Response to Alyssa's Blog Post

I am writing this blog in response to Alyssa’s blog post about asthma in underprivileged children.

Reading the blog post, I became fascinated by the article Alyssa described.  I had never thought about the rich-poor gap affecting young children’s health in this way.  I ended up searching for the article because I wanted to learn more.  I could not find the specific article, but came across other articles and journals that explained more about the issue.  Alyssa talks about the reason that underprivileged children are more likely to be caused harm in relation to the diagnosis of asthma and complications due to this disease is because there tends to be more allergens present in poorer areas of the world.

This being said, I must disagree with some of what Alyssa says about the healthcare for poorer people.  Healthcare is a means to stay or become healthy, meaning we should obviously help out those in need of medical attention and care.  However, this should not mean that the government should ration healthcare.  If some people do not have adequate healthcare, we as a nation should work to fix that.  If we can give everyone a MINIMUM healthcare system we would solve the problem that causes poorer citizens to be lacking in health.  It is not necessary to lower healthcare standards for other people in order to give poor people healthcare when we can work towards giving healthcare to all people.

In conclusion, Alyssa has picked a very interesting article that can obviously be taken in various manners, but the issue addressed must be taken notice of in any case.  When the lives of our neighbors and friends are in danger, we could make sure we do everything in our power to aid in eradicating the problem that affects them.  It is our civic duty to help others and solve problems in our country.