Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Blog#18: Senate Health Care Hearings

What are your character's main goals for the Senate Health Care Hearings?

As Paul Krugman, I strongly support Universal health care as opposed to Free Market health care. My goals are to abolish reaganomics and establish a fair government runned health program. Ideally a bill like Medicare would be most beneficial but Obamacare will will have to suffice. The following are my basic goals for the Health Care Hearing:
-Employment based coverage for all citizens.
-Coverage for people with preexisting medical conditions, such as cancer patients who are sometimes denied coverage by insurance providers.
-Entire middle class population to have insurance.
-Reform that controls Health Care Costs.
-Medicare for all.
-A better Health plan than what we have now.


What do you want to accomplish?
I plan to hopefully convince the senators that a universal health care plan will save our country money in the long run. I will give examples of situations where free market health care ends up costing more than universal health care would cost. I would like to refer to the article entitled "Million Dollar Murray" as proof that our tax money is already paying for peoples medical bills who dont deserve it. Why not share the wealth with the average citizen and improve the quality of life for middle class citizens who arent given medical coverage by their employers.

Paul Krugman on health care: it's a social responsibility.
Watch this Video!
Million Dollar Murray

How do you plan to accomplish it?
I plan to collaborate with the democratic senators to prepare for some questions that might spark up an intellectual conversation. As for the republican party's questions, I don't associate with their kind so I plan on pleading the 5th.

Who are you working with to get this done?

Erica, Nate and I have all done some research on the outstanding economic statistics that involve health care. For each question I answer, i plan on including important statistics and evidence to back it up.