Research proposal

The health of the United States of America is at stake. Many of the US’s political leaders want America to go to a national health care insurance system. Switching to a national health care system would mean that the government financed all health care, owned all hospitals and controlled the salaries of all hospital workers, and that private pay for any service covered by the government would be illegal. It would mean the end of private practice hospitals and doctors and private insurance companies. While “free” health insurance may sound appealing, it really is not free and comes with a high cost to one’s health and possibly life. A national health care system would lead to poor quality in the health of the United States' population because it would lead to inadequate facilities, doctors, medcine, and equipment. The national health care systems in Canada and Europe prove this.
In this research paper I plan to explore the effects a national health care system will have on national health. From my tentative research a national public insurance program is not all it’s cracked up to be. There have been several studies and surveys conducted in Great Britain and Canada on their health care systems’ lack of efficiency in improving the health of the whole nation. In my paper I want to discuss the findings of these studies. I wish to look at the effects a national healthcare system will have on the quality and availability of doctors, nurses, medicine, facilities, and also the latest technology. I plan to prove that the poor quality and availabilty of these items leads to poor public health. I also plan to look at how patient care is negatively affected by the long waiting lists, or even denial, for hospital beds, medical procedures, medical tests, and specialists that national health care would create. The overall conclusion I will come to is that a national health care policy would be detrimental to the people of the United States.