Band 5+: In many societies in the world, the population is ageing rapidly and this is leading to an unsustainable increase in the cost of public healthcare. A nation's population should pay for their healthcare provision in the future. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

In recent times, our world has witnessed a significant speed of ageing in various countries globally. This is an immense problem that our humankind have faced in the modern life, due to its effects to many aspects of our life, especially economics for healthcare expenses. There are an amount of money from a nation’s population, or taxes, have been extracted for healthcare service to elder people. Perspectively, the profits are exceeded by the harm.

Firstly, because of the necessity to the healthcare services, the fee that the elder patients ought to pay for the center is unbelievable. So the tax will support them by health insurance that they had paid before. That will lead to a problem which that people must pay more taxes and it may create a pressure in the nation’s economic. As a country with the highest life expectancy, Japan has faced with various economics problem including money value has dropped to the lowest point over a century and it’s still dropping and doesn’t show a sign of stagnation.

Furthermore, the utilization of healthcare services will lead to the overload in these centers. Because not only the elder people but other patients will come to the healthcare clinics. If you imagine that a vast amount of people gather in a building, it couldn’t work either I said it overloaded. For instance, in COVID-19, because the transmittions between person and person were unpredictable, a majority of people suffered to that dangerous virus. It caused the government to expanding the healthcare services in a form of temporary hospitals to cure patients. Although elder people were the most vulnerable object, various mature people still affected and then it created overloading. Many people had died because there were no space for curation, so they had kick the bucket and lied down forever.

In conclusion, despite that the life expectancy has increased over year, and it also a positive point that prove the healthcare system has developed in the contemporary times, but if we consider the drawbacks, certainly it will cause a gargantuan pressure for the nation’s economics and it will create many negative effects to many aspects in the life.