Run a Google search for any variation of the phrase "socialized health care" and experience a great barrage of links like
this one,
this one,
this one,
this one, and well, you get the picture. There are mass quantities of information, personal reflection, opinion and analysis available when one tries making the case for or against socialized health care.
As suggested by the topic's description, there are many names for this issue: Nationalized Medicine, Socialized Health Care [sometimes Healthcare is a single word], etc. Please mentally lump them together to assume medicine is being provided by the state for the purpose of discussing socialized health care in this debate.
Questions for Debate:
1.) So could socialized health care work for America? Why or why not?
2.) What are the economic advantages? The disadvantages?
3.) Are there alternatives to socialized health care and if so, how viable are they?
This post has been edited by VDemosthenes: Jan 18 2008, 02:26 PM