The point of this article is to take a political issue—in this case healthcare—and try to take an apolitical perspective on the issue. I will no doubt fail in this pursuit due to the fact that I’m a liberal and would be a socialist if I knew more about economics and wasn’t so comfortable with my bourgeois lifestyle. I will avoid being tendentious and hope you will find some truth in my words.

I think the most objective aspect of healthcare would have to be medicine. Our advances in medicine over the years have been nothing short of amazing; the average lifespan has gone up while infant mortality has dropped significantly. I bring these statistics to light because there are few better metrics to consider when discussing improvements in medicine. I understand that "more life" isn’t the only benefit of medicine, but in the broadest sense of the word possible, medicine is supposed to improve our mental and physical well-being so we can live our lives to the fullest.

Medicine helps people. It is supposed to cure illnesses and problems, whether physical or mental. No one would take medicine or seek medical help unless there was a problem that needed to be addressed. As such, I hope everyone can agree that medicine has a positive effect on every human being. Sure, some medicines end up doing more harm than good, but that doesn’t mean some other form of medicine wouldn’t help.

If anyone disagrees with the idea that medicine benefits everyone, I would love to hear your opinion. But, due to the scientific nature of medicine and the fact that science is a study of facts and not opinions, I can’t think of any counter-arguments. Thus, I hope we can agree that this is a fact: medicine and medical services have the potential to help everyone.

Now that that’s out of the way, I want to discuss how any sort of technological advancement tends to become more accessible to the masses. I don’t have any statistics to support this, but it is common sense that once an advancement is made and we learn more about it, it is easier for us to reproduce this advancement. Take smartphones. It wasn't long ago that it was considered a luxury to own one. But now, at least from what I’ve seen as a college student, it has more or less become the standard to have an Android or an iPhone virtually attached to your palm.

This idea should similarly apply to medicine. As we learn to make medicine, we also learn how to make it more efficiently and on a larger scale. The resources required to make medicine become more widely available with each new advancement in medical technology. I use the term, "resources," rather than money because I want to keep economics out of it because phenomena like inflation and the drive for profit could make medicine cost a lot more money.

These are the two aspects of medicine that I believe to be factual. Medicine helps people and, as the years go by, it will take fewer resources to produce medicine and provide medical services. Take from this what you will, but to me, if we wanted to help as many people as possible, there is no reason why we couldn't eventually live in a world where everyone has access to cheap and effective medicines and medical services.