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Is It Time To Think And Talk About Universal Health Care?

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Is it time to think and talk about universal health care?
Timothy Baldone
Axia College
COM-125 / Utilizing Information In College Writing
John Smith
January 12, 2008

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As with any other generation in American history, America now faces a problem that desperately needs attention. The health care system in the United States is broken down. Everyone knows it, but no one knows how to fix it. The United States of America
is the last super power on Earth, but not in the area of health care. Some Americans are fortunate enough to have health care coverage from work, while most other Americans suffer without it. Why? If the health care system doesn't work, why do we keep using it?
Is it finally time to think about a single payer universal health care system that would cover all Americans?
We have all seen the commercials of starving children around the world that die due to the lack of health care. Yet, we ignore all of the people here in America that face a similar plight. Maybe we should all take a better look at how great life is, here in America. Not at our own lives, but rather the lives of our neighbors. Do we simply not understand the circumstances in which they live? They work hard to live the "American Dream", just to get sick and lose everything. America needs to remember where we came from and what we are made of. This country was not founded on the idea of the rich grow old healthily and the poor live without the same treatment. It was founded on the notion that anyone could come to the United States and prosper. How can we prosper without proper health care coverage? It is time that we all open our heart and minds and think about America as a whole. America needs to learn, talk about, and enact a solution to this problem. Without open dialogue, we will not succeed at any attempt to improve our health care system.
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The current health care system is simple but complicated. Americans can fall into any one...