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A 9 page paper which examines President Elect Barack Obama’s universal healthcare plan. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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or potential solutions, involves universal healthcare. Universal healthcare is a practice that many nations implement while the United States remains firmly imbedded in their traditional healthcare. There are many sides
to the issue and as is the case with any large scale change it is something that would prove positive as well as negative. The following paper examines universal healthcare,
healthcare, and what President Elect Barack Obama plans to do with healthcare. History In relationship to the history of universal healthcare in the United States it has never
been a common practice, or a conscious practice. Back in the first decade of the 20th century, according to one author, doctors were "no longer expected to provide free services
to all hospital patients" (PBS, 2008). This would suggest that doctors worked for free to some extent, and that people could expect to get free healthcare services to some extent.
One can assume that in simpler times doctors were paid in many different ways and a person could generally assume they could find healthcare through trading goods for services, or
through the kind hearted nature of the healthcare professionals. But, it was never really universal healthcare for not everyone had access to the healthcare they needed. In addition, at this
time in history it seems that America lagged "behind European countries in finding value in insuring against the costs of sickness" (PBS, 2008). In the 1910s there began to
be a movement of progressive thinkers that argued for the need and the potential benefits of health insurance (PBS, 2008). However any progress in that direction seemed stunted by physicians
who argued against such a practice as well as the coming, and arrival, of WWI (PBS, 2008). The next decade would see reformers emphasizing "the cost of medical care
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