Health care plays an important role in almost every person's life at one time or another. Often, a person may find themselves uninsured or underinsured, which can harm their livelihood. With the increasing cost of health care, it is likely that until now there was no need for a national health policy and, as an individual, being able to afford and obtain adequate health insurance. With the new National Health Plan, all citizens are required to obtain and maintain some sort of public or private insurance policy. Rising costs can be attributed to many factors. The astronomical cost of health care is largely due to the staggering number of uninsured or underinsured people who receive medical care, most of whom never pay the bill. Those who have insurance have seen a gradual increase in their premiums and deductibles to compensate for this. Health policy has had many ups and downs over the years. The first American legislature to involve health care was in 1798, when "The Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen" was passed. This approach is not much different from the way health care works today. The law included a tax of 200 cents on sailors to pay for their health care. But it wasn't until 1912, when President Theodore Roosevelt campaigned on a platform to adopt a single national health service. Eventually, a program called Medicaid was passed to insure low-income families, and in 1966, Medicare was passed, guaranteeing health care to people over 65 who paid into the system. Finally, the Affordable Health Care for America Act was introduced in 2009, and although it has changed and been revised several times since then, it is in the middle of paper......many years later now, but providing affordable health care to the population is something that no one should complain about and for me and in the opinion of many people, it is worth fighting, waiting and s 'engage. Many countries provide national healthcare to their citizens, and I believe our country should move in that direction. I believe medical care is a right, not a privilege. A citizen of the United States of America should not live in fear that, if they become ill or injured, they will have to make the decision to seek medical assistance or to grit their teeth and wait. Many times, waiting is a viable option. Other times it's a difference between life and death. I wouldn't want money to get in the way of this decision. Therefore, medical coverage must be accessible to everyone, and we are moving in the right direction..