GDMA+(Universal+Health+Care)

Messerli, Joe. __Should the Government Provide Free Universal Health Care for All Americans?__. 3/25/2009 4/3/09 [].


 * 1) The number of people who are uninsured has increased to over 40 million.[AA]
 * 2) Health Care has become unaffordable for businesses and individuals.[AA]
 * 3) Eliminate all the extra and wastefull inefficiencies.[AA]
 * 4) Develope a centralized national database that makes diagnosis and treatment easier for doctors.[AA]
 * 5) Medical professionals can focus more on treating the patient rather than the insurance.[AA]
 * 6) Patients often avoid physicals and other preventive measures because of the costs.[AA]
 * 7) Expensives for Health Care would have to be paid for with higher taxes, or spending cuts in other areas like denfense and education.[AA]
 * 8) If Health Care is free other health costs will increase, therefore patients will pay a lot of money anyways.[AA]
 * 9) Nonprofits and government-run hospitals provide services to people who dont have insurance.[AA]
 * 10) Its illegal to refuse emergency medical service because lack of insurance.[AA]
 * 11) Government-mandated procedures will most likely reduce doctors flexibility which would lead to poor patient care.[AA]
 * 12) Healthy people will have to pay the burden of people who smoke, etc.[AA]
 * 13) If things with Health Insurance changed the process would take a very long time.[AA]
 * 14) Doctors would not be paid as much and it may dissuade them from their profession.[AA]
 * 15) Malpractice lawsuits are expensive, could expose the government to legal liability, can sue somone with big pockets which leads to more lawsuits.[AA]
 * 16) Government would most likely pass additional restrictions, increase taxes on goods, causing loss of personal freedom.[AA]
 * 17) Patient confidentiality is likely to be compromised, because all information is maintained by government.[AA]
 * 18) Government benefit is taken as a "right" by the public, its politically impossible to remove it when costs get out of hand.[AA]

Glow, Justin. __What Countries Have Universal Health Care?__. July 5, 2007 4/3/09 .

1) Iraq & Afganistan U.H.C provided by U.S war funding. (MC) 2) North America, no U.H.C sysytem. (MC) 3) South America, 1/3 no U.H.C system (MC) 4) Euope, 1/3 no U.H.C system (MC) 5) Aisa, 1/2 no U.H.C system (MC) 6) Africa, no U.H.C system (MC) 7) Islands, no U.H.C system (MC) 8) Canda and the uper north have some type of health care. (MC) 9) 3/4 of Euope and South America have some type of H.C. (MC) 10) 1/2 of Aisa has some type of H.C (MC) 11) Russia and Austrailia have sopme type of health care (MC) 12) only 5 countries are attempting to implement U.H.C (MC)

__Obama Biden with Health Care__. 4/3/09 [].

1) wants to make health insurance afordable and accesible to all people. (MC) 2) wants to lower health care cost by $2,500 for typical family. (MC) 3) promote public health. (MC) 4) strengthen employer coverage. (MC) 5) plan to have pateints able to make health care decisions with doctor instead of insurance company. (MC) 6) costs will go down by $2,500 a year. (MC) 7) if you don't have health insurance, have a choice of new affordable options. (MC)

__Health Insurance Costs__. 2009 4/3/09 .

1) the less fortuanate should get the same type of health care benefeits as wealthier people and should should get the same amunt of treatment for same diseases (GM) 2) if a less fortunante person were to have cancer and a wealtheir man were to have something like a broken toe or so the guy with cancer should have more treatment and the guy with a broken should GO HOME!!(GM) 3) There are almost 750,000 uninsured, low-income Illinois adults (aged 19-64) that do not qualify for public health insurance coverage(GM) 4)Nearly a quarter (24 percent) of Illinois’ young adult population (aged 19-29) is uninsured.(GM) 5)Illinois’ recent efforts to expand health coverage for children between the ages of 0-18 have had some positive impact; the number of uninsured children, ages 0-18, has dropped from 384,970 in 2004 to 323,197 in 2006(GM) 6)Free Care $793 million, a majority of which hospitals write off for patients who can not pay, also known as bad debt.(GM 7)Subsidies for government-sponsored care -- $856.7 million covering losses on patients covered by Medicaid and other government insurance programs that pay less than the cost of care(GM)

Battista, John. __Conneticut Coalition for Universal Health Care__. June 4, 1999 4/3/09 . McCabe, Justine. __Conneticut Coalition for Universal Health Care__. June 4, 1999 4/3/09

1.In the United States health care is not guaranteed due to citizenship. [AA] 2.Twenty Eight industrialized nations have single payer universal health care systems.[AA] 3.United States rank 50th to 100th in immunizations. [AA] 4.The united States is ranked poorly compared to other nations. [AA] 5. If the cost of Health Insurance was lowered the United States could save one to two billion dollars per year. [MC] 6. About 75% of ill uninsured people are having trouble accessing/ paying for health care. [MC] 7. Access in the United States is directly related to income and race. [MC] 8. The quailty of health care in the U.S. deteriorated.[AA] 9. The United Statess goal is to have a single payer system. [MC] 10. Single payer health care system is basically everyone defends for ones self. [AA]

"Universal Health Care ." __Wikipedia__. 4/6/09 .

1) coverage extended to all eligable residents of gov. region. (MC) 2) covers medical, dental, and mental health care. (MC) 3) developing in many countries. (MC) 4) government covers 27.8% of population through programs for elderly, disabled military families and veterans, children, and poor. (MC)

__Descrimination of Ethnicity and Religion.__ Ofari Hutchinson, Earl. __Race Drives the War on Universal Health Care__. Mar 12, 2009 April 7, 2009 [|www.imdiversity.com/villages/hispanic/politics_law/nam_race_drives_0309.asp] 1) According to the Commonwealth Fund, blacks and Hispanics make up nearly half of the estimated 50 million Americans who have no health care insurance. (DM) 2) Also are far more likely than the one in four uninsured whites to experience problems getting treatment at a hospital or clinic. (DM) 3) Black and Hispanics are more likely than the one and four uninsured whites to possibly going through problems getting treatment at a hospital or clinic. (DM) 4) Black and Hispanics are have fewer choices in getting health care coverage. (DM) 5) The outstanding difference in the number or uninsured have been a major issue for every Democratic president since Harry Trumn. (DM) 6) Presiden Obama will face the same issue againist private insurers and healthcare providers when he gives his ideas for universal health care on the congressional table. (DM) 7) The disparity in access to, and quality of, health care for minorities has fueled the crisis and the urgency for reform. (DM) 8) The recent study by the Archives of the Internal Medicine examined, treatment and care for more then 150,000 Medicare patients. (DM) 9) It found that hospitals and insurers pay way more to care for African Americans and Hispanics near death than for whites. (DM) 10) Researchers have thought these theories such as cultural differences, spritual beliefs, patients' fears and family breakdowns as reasons to explain the gap in cost. But those explanations are an exercise in victim blaming. (DM) 11) As death closens the hospital and treatment costs for blacks and hispanics are higher because of the decades of medical neglect and the profit grabs by private medical providers. (DM) 12) Numerous studies have shown that blacks and hispanics suffer higher rates of catastrophic illness and disease, and are much likely to get basic drugs, tests, preventive screenings and surgeries. Minorities are more likely to recover from illness a lot slower and die at a much younger age. (DM) 13) More studies have shown that when minorities do recieve treatment, the care they recieve is more likely to be substandard than that of whites. (DM) 14) Also when minorities are enrolled in high quality health care plans, the gap in the care and quality of medical treatment still remains an issue. (DM) 15) American medical providers spend twice as much per patient than providers in countries with universal health care. (DM)

__Why do you need health insurance?__ 2007 4/14/09 .

1. Health insurance protects you and your family in case you need medical care that becomes expensive. [AA] 2. Insurance can be covered by a third- party. Which is insurance company or your employer. [AA] 3. If you don't have health insurance you will be responible for paying for all medical bills. [AA] 4. Having health insurance betters your health. [AA]

__Insurance Terms__. 7/17/01 4/14/09 [].

1.Coordination of Benefits- a system to eliminate duplication of benefits when you are covered under more than one group plan, limited to no more than 100 percent of the claim. [AA] 2. HMO( Health Maintenance Organization)- prepaid health plans, monthly premium, covers all major medical issues. [AA] 3. Managed Care- ways to manage costs, use and quality of the health care system, HMO and PPO contain this. [AA] 4. Maximum out- of- pocket- the most money you will be required to pay a year. [AA] 5. PPO( Preferred Provider Organization)- a combination of traditional fee-for- serivce. [AA] 6. Third- Party Payer- any payer for health care other than you.[AA]

Crane, Laura. __Religion and Healthcare__. 2007 4/14/09 . 1. Certain types of religion like buddhism believe that they can heal themselves by their mind, natural herbs, and elements of the Earth. [MC] 2. Most christians own health care. [MC] 3. Mormons have health care.[AA] 4. No one is forced to have health care, its an indiviual decision.[AA]

__Childrens Health Insurance__. 2007 4/14/09 .

1. the health insurance of children is low for children and familys who have children. [MC] 2. Obama has made an act on childrens health insurance program. [MC] 3."CHIP" is the name of the act Obama has planned. [MC] 4. "CHIP" allows children and teens to be able to apply for free or low cost health insurance. [AA] 5. "CHIP" isn't only for the children whos parents have a low income, it can be provided to the children whos parent make alot of money. [AA] 6. Once your signed up your are guaranteed 12 months; you must renew coverage to keep the health insurance. [AA] 7. No waiting list ! [AA] 8. Pregnancy health care [AA] 9. Dental health care [AA] 10.Mental health treatment; Drug or alcohol absuement. [AA] 11. Children with special needs health care. [AA]

American Diabetes Association. __Health Insurance for People Who Have Diabetes.__ 2007. 14 Apr. 2009 [].

1. If you have diabetes you become very helpless with your health problems, etc. Health Insurance is a big help to people with diabetes. [AA] 2. American Diabetes Association has been helping all people living with diabetes. [AA]

__Descrimination of Race and Ethnicity__ Levy & Sidel, Barry & Victor. __Social injustice and public health__. <http://books.google.com/books?

1) Latios represent the largest group without health insurance. (DM) 2) Thus because latinos work with low wage jobs that do not provide health insurance. (DM) 3) Disparities in quality of health care have also been documented comprehensively. (DM) 4) The U.S. is the only industrialized nation that does not have some form of universal health care. (DM) 5) The U.S. treats health care as a privilege, only available to those who can afford it. (DM) 6) Black women dont get the same treatment as whites or black men with the same condiction. (DM)

__Uninsured Americans__ Chua, Kao-Ping. __The Case for Universal Health Care__. 2007-2008 4/14/09 . 2) Currently there are more than 45 million Americans uninsured. (DM) 3) Rising health care insurance has caused fewer employers to be able to provide their workers with health insurance. (DM) 4) 80% of the Americans uninsured are hardworking Americans or come from hardworking families. (DM)
 * 1) Steep health insurance costs have caused the dramatic drop in insured Americans. (DM)

__Maternity Advantage__. 2009 4/14/09 .

1. Maternity Advantage is a national health care orginatization. [AA] 2. The mission of the orginatization is to assist pregnant women. [AA] 3. Trying to help make doctor trips, hospitals, sonograms and lab work affordable. [AA] 4. They believe woman risk the health of the babies with out health insurance. [AA] 5. Since 2002 the Maternity Advantage orginatization has helped over 35,000 pregnant women. [AA] 6. Maternity Advantage provide healthcare priorities, monthly budgets, state residency, family income level and provider preferences. [AA] ||