Can anyone revise this and make it better? if you want to elaborate on it thats cool too...?
The Healthcare Reform Bill that we are faced with right now, in spite of what some individuals mistakably believe, is exactly what the US has hungered for throughout these antecedent years. We are offered the chance to redeem ourselves and create better overall coverage for individuals who seek their health. I would like to put the proposed bill into action and have the changes started right away. The United States of America is in desperate need of reliable health care. America as a whole needs the type of health care that will help a person despite pre-existing conditions, or petty attempts to deny a person their health. The People of the United States have long forgotten the dream of how the nation’s people could thrive if they were provided with the proper health care. Health care in this nation of ours has been on a steady decline since the 1930’s and has been viewed as a crisis situation since the 1970’s. The blame, despite the constant finger pointed at insurance companies, falls on us, the Americans. In the past, president administrations such as Harry S. Truman’s, Richard M. Nixon’s, and George Bush’s have all proposed plans similar to the one being proposed in the present day. The plan that Truman compiled was fervently rejected by the American Medical Association (AMA), and was, in addition called a “Communist Plot†by a House subcommittee. Likewise, the plan for national health insurance that President Richard M. Nixon proposed was rejected by liberals and labor unions. All in all it is our fault for the faulty healthcare we are presently presented with. Before taking any action Americans need to take a step back and view the situation we have thrust ourselves in, thus will begin the inevitable changes we have deprived ourselves of. Clearly the U.S. needs some sort of Healthcare Reform. If America would simply submit to the currently proposed Health Care Reform bill then all Americans despite their income would be able to get help for their sickness and it will not cost them everything they have worked so hard to achieve and accomplish. Countries that have embraced healthcare as ours are the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan, and Switzerland. Here is a closer look at three of the capitalist democracies in the world. The United Kingdom’s plan is perhaps the most appealing. The percentage of Gross Domestic Product or GDP that is spent on healthcare is 8.3. The average family premium is none; it is wholly funded by taxation. The co-payments virtually do not exist, although there is some required pay for dental care five percent of prescriptions, and eyeglasses. The Government pays and provides healthcare putting them under a “socialized medicine†system The way it functions is that the citizens pay taxes for the healthcare and the government-run National Health Service (NHS) separates the money and distributes is accordingly to the providers of healthcare. The Doctors for Hospitals are paid a salary and General practitioners otherwise known as GP, who operate their own business; their income is still based upon the number of patients they tend to. While the United Kingdom’s citizens hardly have to pay out of pocket for the work they need done, the other countries that are listed above have some out of pocket money they are forced to pay. Such as Japan, their average family premium is $280 every month, with the employers paying more than half. The Co-payments are 30 percent of the cost of a procedure. Now for the last, Germany has a whopping $750 per month average family premium; premiums are attached to patients' income. Co-payments, however are only 10 euros ($15) every three months; although some patients however, like pregnant women for example, are exempt from the co-payments. Americans need to view other countries healthcare and view which one provides the most sufficient coverage for the people. We can pick and choose, mold and form, our own system. We shall open our eyes and learn from the mistakes others have done before us; we will do as the Americans have done all along, we will copy everyone else. Only we will do it better. some info.... http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/countries/ oh and uhhhh sorry its too long. its a research paper so its meant to be long. =] uhm, im a senior in highschool. but good job on trying to insult me uhmmm dippy doodle.... seriously, your insulting me with that name??? imbecile. anyways, thanks guys and i did change the antecedent years and hungered for. =]
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WAY too long to read. Bye now.
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Cliffnotes are needed here.
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sorry, too much like work.
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I'd say your right on. I wish more people would research this subject like you have done instead of immediately disagreeing with reform just because it is a dem program.
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If its a research paper...it's too short.
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If this is a research paper, then you need to cite sources and also, present the other side. Your first sentence is way to long and you're using words that really don't fit.. We've "hungered" and "antecedent years". You need to break each new idea into separate paragraphs. Also look at some of the cons to this health care plan.
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Besides all of the false assertions about what Americans need, want and how our health is denied us by evil insurance companies, it is a rambling attempt at an argument by a young, inexperienced girl child who is just out of the home and enjoying her first year in college. Just my opinion of course. http://weareboilingfrogs.com/2009/10/the-fallacy-of-fixed-intrinsic-value/ http://weareboilingfrogs.com/2009/09/3-reasons/ http://weareboilingfrogs.com/2009/09/death-panels-i/
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Grammar needs some major help. "All in all it is our fault for the faulty healthcare we are presently presented with."...yea no(I think my English teacher would have died after reading that one). Was there a requirement to awkwardly alliterate :) I completely disagree with your assessment of the current state of our system and that the bill will address the problems of coverage when it will not insure everyone. I guess that's beside the point. I think you should include more about what is in the current bill that you like. You have nothing in there of substance about the bill that you want "put into action". >We've "hungered" and "antecedent years". I would second this, its an awkward use of words, it looks like they are thrown in there to try to impress the teacher. It doesn't flow and looks out of place and wont win you points.
