Although people argue that healthcare is personal obligation because body health is private responsibility, others believe the converse that governments should spend more funds in public healthcare since they must guarantee their residents’ safe and health. Admittedly, it is not only goverment responsiblity, but also personal obligation.
Individual responsibility for health should be stressed, because the responsible person for bodies, essentially, is the owners themselves, which triggers them to knowing their own needs. As none know the basic needs of the bodies except the owners, so they are obligated to maintain their health as well as to fulfill their necessities. The public residents who care enough for their own body healths have a tendency to prevent themselves from getting sick paralelly. For instance, civics in Kalirejo regularly check their body health at least once per month, ensuring that they are in health conditions.
Apart from that, health facility is one of the way governments maintain their civics safety and healthy, increasing their satisfactions. Residents are obligated to pay taxes almost for every daily necessities and even their salaries. Tax increases the price and decrease their salaries to some extent, which leads them to spending more for those needs and incomes. Therefore, from the public taxes that the government get, they ought to guarantee their health as it is the human basic need by funding the public healthcare facilities. Portugese government, particularly, funds almost 300 billion for developing new hospitals in remote areas.
To sum up, undoubtedly, to maintain health is both goverment responsiblity and personal obligation instead of one responsibility due to the fact that the governments must keep their residents health, while the body health is private responsibility of people. Where possible, the governments could make a campaign for promoting the importance of the health for lives.