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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...

For the next form of research, I decided to look for videos that talked about single-payer healthcare and I found one by VOX on Youtube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNla9nyRMmQ It talks the viewer through what is incredibly wrong with the current healthcare system America has. In this current day scenario, different insurances talk to the healthcare providers such as the hospitals itself and bargain prices for how much they will pay and that is then transferred to the customer. In America there is a sliding scale as per se for healthcare; you can go to the er with multiple different insurances (from public like medicare to private like Kaiser) and pay a varying amount of money or you could show up with no healthcare and pay the entire full price. This current system takes advantage of the fact that most people don't know enough about health procedures themselves to "do it themselves". They also take advantage of the fact that when people come in for help they are o...

The article I found through the Auraria Library database is called: Redefining Global Health-care delivery. When trying to find an article that was relevant to my topic, health-care on a large scale, I decided to research via key-words. I typed in health care and after scrolling through the results I found that this article was the one most relevant to my topic. The article itself talks about, "Initiatives to address the unmet needs of those facing both poverty and serious illness have expanded significantly over the past decade. But many of them are designed in an ad-hoc manner to address one health problem among many; they are too rarely assessed; best practices spread slowly." (Kim, Farmer, Porter, 1060) The article goes on to talk about ways to spread disease awareness, preventions, and cures for mass diseases such as HIV/AIDS. The article changed my perspective on my topic because it reminded me that there are diseases that the USA has cured and has cures for that th...

There are three different options for field survey that we learned about this week, interview, observation, and survey. When considering what would be best for my particular topic you must first know what each specifically targets. Interviews are in most cases a one on one based whereas, observation and survey would be group-based. This sets interviews apart from the group, they are a tunnel into someone's heart, history, and opinion, aka. brain. Interviews target specific demographics because you target who exactly you are asking questions to. Observation is a much more relaxed way of gathering research. The pressure of the interview and asking the correct questions is off, instead, you sit back and watch what people are doing, how they interact with your subject and then you can gather your results from there. This would perhaps be good if you were researching something that was visible such as exercise and diet, however, I am researching something that is not physical and theref...