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An American Sickness: how healthcare became big business and how you can take it back by Elisabeth Rosenthal This read was significantly more interesting than the other one I read and let's be honest, I read the important chapters of the others because I was extremely over reading books 400 pages long about healthcare. This book talks about how in the country that is quickly unraveling due to corrupt politics, American medicine is the first thing to go. "In only a few decades, the medical system has been overrun by organizations seeking to exploit for profit the trust that vulnerable and sick Americans place in their healthcare. American healthcare was set up like a best buy, but that's not how healthcare works. They expect you to shop like you do at best buy, make the smart choice and take your time with research however they place you in an environment in which you are most likely unconscious or unable to make an educated decision. It's when your kid is sick or you...

This academic article was found on JSTOR which is a trusted site to find academic articles. This particular article talks about the beginning of the end for universal healthcare in Australia and all the broken promises the government made. Basically, there was a new conservative government that made a whole bunch of budget cuts to their standardized healthcare which affects a majority of people living in Australia. See, the public sector of healthcare in Australia is single-payer healthcare, that means everyone is provided a basic level of health insurance paid for by a single entity. Australia is unique though is the fact that they also have a private sector that doesn't take away from the public health system like in America, in fact, it just gives you an "upgrade" like nicer rooms at the hospital, better food and such. It is like paying a-la-carte for hospital stays. What this article is talking about though is if you affect/takeaway benefits of everyone's basic le...

How the Affordable Care Act will improve our terribly complex, blatantly unjust, outrageously expensive, grossly inefficient, error-prone system: The Book: If I am being completely honest, I check four books out at the library in one day thinking I have a couple months to read these, it will be all well and dandy and let me tell you they were so incredibly dry. Yes, this undoing was all on myself for choosing a topic with incredibly dry books. Anyways, moving past that this book had some interesting points to it which perhaps didn't help me learn more about universal and single-payer healthcare and why it did or didn't work in America, instead, it did teach me about how it failed. This is the synopsis of the book (you really learn all you need from this, don't bother giving it a read) In March 2010, the affordable care act was signed into law. it was the most extensive reform of Americas health care system since at least the creation of Medicare in 1965, and maybe ever....

Michelle Zierk ENGL 2030 July 7, 2019 Final Project Proposal National Healthcare My proposed topic for the final project of this semester is national healthcare. While this is a broad topic at such, I am curious to learn more about why it is either successful or not in certain countries. I am interested in this particular topic for multiple reasons. Those reasons being, I have multiple chronic illnesses that in turn mean I am very involved in the healthcare and insurance industry as well as, our current president recently revoked ObamaCare which was our national healthcare system. Due to my illnesses and almost being 26, my interest in healthcare overall has spiked and I am shocked at the affordability or lack thereof in this country. National healthcare spiked my interest not only for the reasons above but also because I knew very little about it. What I did know was, it is a hot button topic in our country that divides us as much as gun control and is one...

Why is America so opposed to universal health care? "...The rest of the developed world has largely accepted the government’s role in ensuring affordable health care, the US remains stuck in an endless debate full of misinformation perpetuated by rich interest groups." (Gay, 1) This article gets to the point, it starts off with the aforementioned quote addressing the fact that America is behind the rest of the world. It goes on to talk about how even Hong Kong, which is notably a hands-off government even provides universal healthcare for its' people. "How is it that such an advanced society is so averse to an idea that’s elemental in most of the developed world? The answer has to do with the individualist and anti-intellectual political culture that  Donald Trump has ridden into the White House, and with the political power of a health care industry heavily armed to protect its own interests. The US Republican-controlled House of Representatives this month pushed t...

Reddit- This seems like an interesting website to pop up when researching universal or single-payer healthcare however it piqued my interest. What I found was a subreddit all about universal healthcare and why Americans "hate" it. It was originally posted as a question from a guy from New Zeland just trying to gain some more insight into why America was so against it. Interesting enough, I found that this was a wonderful place to gain insight into many different peoples' opinions in one place. More than a few "Redditors" chimed in with their perspective which in-turn taught me a lot about how not everyone is well educated on the topic and many people don't see how there is a beneficial aspect to raising their taxes more. I thought one man's opinion to be valid after all of the previous research I have done, "First of all, taxes would definitely go up significantly in order to compensate for it and a lot of American's are advocating for fewer t...