Question

I need help with this essay and I don't know if I have the following:

Do I have a strong claim?
Do I address my counterclaim with a rebuttal?

I agree only if people get fired and lose insurance not because they don't do good at their job.
If we gave everyone Government-provided healthcare it would be bad because of the waiting times. When the government provides all or most of the costs of healthcare, the people will not mind going to the hospitals and clinics for checkups, even when they don't need it.
Too much inflation means that the government loses control of the currency. And lots of bad political and economic outcomes can result from that. As a result, you can count on your taxes going higher after universal healthcare is implemented. And a lot higher at that.
Medicare is already costing the country $675 billion on an annual basis. Medicaid is costing $574.2 billion per year. That's a total of about $1.25 Trillion per year.

Currently, total federal tax revenues run at about $3.25 trillion. If we add an extra $2 trillion to the government?s expenditures, that will mean that the government will need to collect roughly 62% more in taxes than they are right now.
And that's just to keep the current budget debt from going any higher than it is right now.
Imagine that your taxes are going uphill by 62% so that you can have government-funded health insurance. And not just your federal income taxes, but also the FICA tax, including the half of that tax that your employer pays on your behalf. Do you still want that deal?
I'm pretty sure that I won't. And we haven't even factored in future increases in healthcare spending, or the negative effects that the next recession will have on government revenues. What it all means is that the numbers above are the best-case scenario. Things can probably only get more serious, not better.
In conclusion Universal health care is unfair, because it means that everyone has to pay taxes to take care of people who do not even choose to take care of themselves. For example, people make choices about their health, such as whether to smoke. If people choose to smoke, they will have more health problems than people who choose to be healthy.
Do I have a strong claim?
Do I address my counterclaim with a rebuttal?

Answer 1

you do not have a strong claim. try using a claim and have evidence.

but everything else looks good.

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Answer 2

a quotation from the American Lung Association.

a statistic about how much smoking-related diseases cost the United States last year.

the average adult smoker’s health costs.

Step-by-step explanation: