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Brodie Collins

Student Research Center - powered by EBSCOhost: Socialized medicine - 0 views

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    Socialized medicine Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition, 7/1/2010 Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, in the Socialized medicine (2010) argues that the united states is the only western country that doesn't have socialized medicine and the united states needs some form of socialized medicine. They get their support by comparing us to foreign western countries health care systems. The authors purpose is to convince people that we need socialized medicine. The author writes in a informing tone that shows his audience that we need to reform.  The sections explains that we are the only western country that doesn't have socialized medicine. And that we need to reform to become more western. This author makes very good points because what he says are all true facts. I will use this source for my examples to my audience. 
Brodie Collins

Student Research Center - powered by EBSCOhost: Public Option Will Lead to Single-Payer... - 0 views

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    Public Option Will Lead to Single-Payer Nationalized Program By: Williams, Armstrong, Human Events, 00187194, 11/16/2009, Vol. 65, Issue 40 Armstrong Williams, in the Public Option Will Lead to Single-Payer Nationalized Program (2009) argues that the public will force that government to nationalize health care sooner or later. He support are how the voters are talking and voting that is how he knows. The purpose of this is to make people aware of the health care issue and the voice of this is serious and it audience is the people.  It just talks about medicare and private insurance companies. It also talks about how are economy is bad. The economy will cause prices to skyrocket. This is a good argument because the economy is bad and people get hurt. Which causes a lot of money to get yourself fixed. 
Brodie Collins

Student Research Center - powered by EBSCOhost: The Next Phase of Healthcare Apartheid - 0 views

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    The Next Phase of Healthcare Apartheid By: Solomon, Norman, Humanist, 00187399, Jan/Feb2010, Vol. 70, Issue 1 Norman Solomon, The Next Phase of Healthcare Apartheid (2010) argues that if we stick to are current course in health care that it is pretty much like apartheid because they are not getting the best health care they could be getting here in our country. The support is in doctors office because obviously we dont have payed health care from the government. The author writes in a determined tone to show the american people injustices are going on.  This article highlight the current issues of people who have healthcare. And if they do it is really crapy health care even though if the government paid for it they could have better health care. I like that this article tells people how it is and not but around. I also like how it tell why private health care is bad verses public. 
Brodie Collins

Student Research Center - powered by EBSCOhost: HEALTH REFORM: NOT A DONE DEAL? - 0 views

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    HEALTH REFORM: NOT A DONE DEAL? By: Smith, Anne Kates, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, 15289729, Jul2010, Vol. 64, Issue 7 Anne Smith, in the Health Reform: Not a done deal? argues that the government shouldn't force people to have any health care coverage if they dont want to mandated by the government. She says that republicans can stop the government mandated health care. She believes that private health care is the best for americans so they chose. The authors purpose is to show the sigle payer system is not going to pass easy. The author writes in a positive tone to the americans who are against health care.  This article says that the republicans have a significant minority and that it will not let the government to pass single payer health care easy without a fight. I thought it was bad because it shows how the republicans dont want to give americans what they want and how they dont care about the people who need health care. I will use this source to show people who the real people are who are preventing us from becoming an even better nation morally.  
Brodie Collins

Student Research Center - powered by EBSCOhost: Kangaroo Court - 0 views

  • WHEN U.S. District Court Judge Roger Vinson ruled last week that the individual mandate--and hence, the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA)--violates the Constitution, right-wingers were entitled to feel giddy.
  • Judge Vinson's ruling is a transparently result-driven ideological polemic. The individual mandate is a financial penalty levied on people who do not buy health insurance.
  • Congress should not be permitted to secure and cast politically difficult votes on controversial legislation by deliberately calling something one thing, after which the defenders of that legislation take an "Alice-in-Wonderland" tack and argue in court that Congress really meant something else entirely, thereby circumventing the safeguard that exists to keep their broad power in check.
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  • So scratch the tax authority. There's also the constitutional clause allowing Congress to "make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing powers." Vinson concedes Congress can regulate the national health insurance market.
  • Second, Vinson's polemic reflects the right's apocalyptic fears in the age of Obama. Conservatives see President Obama's agenda not as an embrace of previously bipartisan ideas, or even an incremental victory for liberalism, but as a break-point between freedom and tyranny.
  • In reality, health insurance is a massive business in which the actions of all people are far more tightly linked than in almost any kind of market.
  • Broccoli consumption, meanwhile, has only the faintest impact on health care spending
  • Vinson's argument amounts to little more than imagining some implausible end that would result from allowing the individual mandate--an end Congress would never legislate and the courts would never allow--and then insisting that, to avoid such a fate, he must undertake a wild flight of judicial activism in the opposite direction.
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    Kangaroo Court By: Chait, Jonathan, New Republic, 00286583, 3/3/2011, Vol. 242, Issue 3 Jonathan Chait, in the Kangaroo Court (2011) argues that the right wing judge was wrong to rule the Affordable Care Act violates the constitution. He believes the judge is wrong because of the moral to help the people without health care. His support is that the congress wanted to past it and the people voted the democrats in as the majority after Obama won president. His purpose was to show the people that this judge man a wrong decision in order to get more support for the health care reform. The author writes in a concerned tone to show the audience this is a huge issue that is really important.  This article talks about how this conservative judges ruling was wrong based on he was going against what the people wanted and congress wanted. And how if the government paid for health care it wouldn't impact are budget or taxes that much. This was a good article because it shows how that conservatives go against the people all the time over health care issues and only make the problem worst and this author shows this. I will use this to show how that people everywhere are being denied their rights to basic health. 
Brodie Collins

Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context - Document - 0 views

  • In recent years, the availability and affordability of health insurance in the United States has become the subject of much debate. The United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights lists medical care among the basic human rights to which all people are entitled.
  • In most developed countries, health care systems involve government control or sponsorship. For instance, in Great Britain, Scandinavia, and the countries of the former Soviet Union, the government controls almost all aspects of health care, including access and delivery. For the most part, health services in these countries are free to everyone; the systems are financed primarily by taxes.
  • Today, most Americans receive health insurance through their place of work.
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  • Both government-based health care systems and the mixed public/private system of the United States offer benefits but also have serious flaws. The former provide universal coverage, guaranteeing access to health care regardless of income or employment. Most government-based plans also provide better care for pregnant women and newborn babies than the U.S. system. However, supporting these health care systems requires higher levels of government spending than the public/private system.
  • In the United States, patients can obtain virtually any kind of medical service.
  • Health-care costs in the United States more than doubled between 1997 and 2007.
  • The costs of health care are escalating rapidly.
  • Finally, many opponents of rationing are opposed to having the government play a role in private medical-care decisions.
  • Finally, many millions of Americans are forced to go without health insurance entirely.
  • In 2006, 46.6 million Americans were without health insurance.
  • Only 60 percent of Americans received health insurance through their employers in 2007, down from 69 percent in 2000.
  • A single-payer system is defined has a health-care system that has doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers paid for out of a single fund.
  • In 2002, Americans spent a total of $1.6 trillion dollars on health care, including $486 billion on hospitals, $340 million on doctors, $162 billion on prescription drugs, and $139 billion on nursing home and home health care. Some health economists have predicted that America’s health spending will reach $4 trillion by 2015.
  • The Massachusetts plan had some initial success, enabling 150,000 previously uninsured state residents to obtain affordable coverage.
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    GALEIPC3021900080 Cengage Learning, in the Health Care Issues (2010) argues that make people support either the public health care solution or the public/private health care solution. The Cengage Learning supports this claim by listening to what the politicians who represent the american people say. They also look at data from foreign countries about how their health care system works. The authors purpose is to show how they public system works and the public/private system works they explain both sides. And tell the fact that both sides agree on in order to let the reader decide their own opinion about the topic. The author writes in a normal tone for the ordinary person.  In the first part they establish that their is a debate in the United States and that the United Nations considers it a basic right to have health care. It goes on to talk about that most developed countries have public health care or public/private health care. Then they talk about how most people in the United States get their health care through their work. Then they just explain how a public health care uses taxes to pay for the health care. And either politician want public single payer health  system or private health care system. I love how the author explains both sides and they tell you both sides of the issue and let you decide on the issue for yourself. I will use this source to tell people how public health care systems can pay for everyone and its the best choice.
Brodie Collins

Uninsured Americans over 50 million - 0 views

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    Lee, Amy."Number of uninsured americans soars over 50 million"(2010), explains that many companies are taking away health insurance. 5he purpose of this article to answer why americans are losing there health insurance. The authors audiance is the uneducated people in america. The article talks about how the companies have to cut of benefits of there workers to save money. But I don't agree with the author that this is the central problem to health care. But I could use this example in my research to show why health care is getting worst in america.
Brodie Collins

Uninsured Americans - 0 views

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    Wolf, Richard. "Number of Uninsured Americans Rises to 50.7 Million - USATODAY.com." News, Travel, Weather, Entertainment, Sports, Technology, U.S. & World - USATODAY.com. Web. 04 Feb. 2011. . Richard Wolf, in the article "Number of uninsured Americans rises to 50.7 million"(2010), explains that uninsured Americans in the country have risen which has renewed the debate on health care issue and how to solve it. The increase in uninsured Americans is because many companies are shedding jobs. The purpose of this article is to raise awareness to Americans that the health care issue is not being fixed. Richard is writing to Americans that follow this issue and also to people who work in the health care industry. The article explains that uninsured Americans population continue to rise even though President Obama has pushed through a bill that is suppose to help people without insurance get good quality health care. I dont like how this writing shows both sides because there is only one right side and one bad side. He also fails to bring up any solutions. I can use this source to show the steady rise of uninsured Americans in America and why we need to find a fixable solution to the health care problem.
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