For my Experience and Other Evidence paper, I will write about health insurance. As an EMT, I first experienced a man denying my care because he did not have insurance and could not afford the bills. As a hopeful doctor, I feel as though this issue will have a big impact on my life. Thus, I am excited to learn more about it.
I want to compare the American system of healthcare and the rest of the world's. I would like to include all of the recent progress made, especially about the mandate for everyone to have health insurance. Is a mandate even constitutional? Without a mandate, isn't anybody that gets sick without insurance a burden to the rest of society? How will the recent changes to the system effect the medical field, including costs of operations, paychecks of the employees, and the burden/responsibility on the government to help people? I plan to use as many factual statistics as I can to enforce whatever argument I choose to make.
I think it will be interesting looking at the medical practices both in America and elsewhere.Its interesting because I think your touching on the financial aspect of medicine and the fields main goal which is to save lives.Where this conflicts,where the practioner is 'unable' to save a life because of issues like this is interesting.
ReplyDeleteI've really never thought about the differences of health care between the United States and the rest of the world. I think it will be cool to see some comparisons. I also think this is a really good topic for you because you want to be a doctor and you'll really be able to expand on it.
ReplyDeleteI think you picked a really good topic to discuss. Many don't really go in depth when it comes to health insurance and I think its important that we do. It's something that affects all our lives. I'm sure you'll have tons to write about in your paper.
ReplyDelete"By looking at health care, we can see several constitutional and moral problems to the system, which most readers don't see; this is important because a functional American health care system is necessary to stay competitive in the world."
ReplyDeleteThis encompasses the constitutional and moral aspects of the mandate, as well as introduces the comparison between different countries' health care systems.
It's exciting to see how excited YOU are about your topic! You have lots of great questions in your post, and as I mentioned in our conference, it will be important (as you yourself have noted) to narrow these down once you actually write (though they are great for research). Regarding your magic thesis sentence, I encourage you over time to specify what about health care you will look at (perhaps it will be the constitutional and moral issues at play?), and to clarify what you mean by "stay competitive." I think you are on to something very important and compelling in this last part of the sentence, and your audience will likely be more inclined to follow your eventual argument if you are as specific as possible here. For this first paper, therefore, I think it will be important for you to lay the groundwork for what you will be expanding upon over the course of the semester, and you'll do this most effectively by becoming increasingly specific. (Like most of your classmates topics, this is one that can easily grow almost out of control... the stases will help here). I'm excited to see where you take this!
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