Should the rich pay for the poor when it comes to health insurance
Watch the corresponding film. Write a 1,500 word minimum essay (about 5 full pages), in MLA format that answers each of the guidelines for the assignment. Additionally, you will need to find a minimum of TWELVE sources to support your thesis with at least three books, three academic or scholarly journal articles from a database, three magazine articles and a balanced mixture of other sources types. Sources from Wikipedia will not be accepted.
Essay Topics for Sick Around the World
Please Watch Flim
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/view/
Essay Topic #4
In Germany, the rich pay for the poor, the ill are covered by the healthy, health insurance continues with or without employment, and doctors, who are private entrepreneurs, make less money than they did before reform.
Why will doctors in Germany accept less money?
Should the rich pay for the poor when it comes to health insurance
RESOURCES
FRONTLINE: Sick Around the World
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/
The companion Web site to the documentary features extended interviews, on-demand video streaming of the full program, themes and analysis and annotated links. Students might be interested in the articles from think tanks and those opposed to universal coverage http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/etc/links.html#3
U.S. Census Bureau Health Insurance Coverage Highlights
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/hlthins/hlthin06/hlth06asc.html
This one-page document gives statistics for the percentage and numbers of people covered by health insurance in the United States in 2006.
“Health Care Horror Stories”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/opinion/11krugman.html
This editorial by New York Times columnist Paul Krugman includes anecdotes about the effects in America of denying health care to people who cannot pay for it.
“Voodoo Health Economics”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/opinion/04krugman.html
“Elizabeth Edwards has cancer. John McCain has had cancer in the past. Last weekend, Mrs. Edwards bluntly pointed out that neither of them would be able to get insurance under Mr. McCain’s health care plan.”
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Healthy citizens translate into a successful nation. For a nation to be able to thrive well in all aspects of its operations, it needs to first make sure that its citizen’s health is well sought after. This is important since it is then that form the labor capital. Without a productive labor, business would not do well…………………
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