Critical Analysis Of American Healthcare By George Halvoron

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In “Think you know European healthcare” George Halvorson talks about the cost of healthcare in Europe compared to the US. The author compared the cost that what Europeans have to pay for their universal healthcare, and compared it to what most Americans pay for health care. The author concluded that people in Europe have to pay more compared to what the typical American pays. The info is reliable because it is a peer review article; other people have looked at the article and critiqued it. The source seems to have no obvious bias. It will help me when I compare the cost of universal health care to what Americans are already paying. This info in the article will help shape my main point on costs problems.

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In the article the authors compare rates of different illness in different countries. The authors compared on how the countries do at preventing heart failure, stroke, and cancer screenings. The findings from the authors show that the US is the leading to all the countries that were looked at. So, the US is better that all other countries in those aspects of healthcare. The info is reliable because it is peer reviewed and a cross sectional study. That means a lot of people are involved in the making of the article. That means that there should be no real bias because other people would fix that. This will be useful to show the quality of the healthcare in the US compared to other countries. I can use this to show the US has better …show more content…

So, it has both sides of the argument. The points that will use is that universal healthcare will create massive shortage because of the increase in demand and decrease in supply. Also, I will use it to get the counterargument for why there should be universal healthcare. The source is reliable because it is a public charity that has no agenda to push, and it gives both sides of the argument. This will be useful to me in making my economic point and the counterargument