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SUMMARY: A debate over universal health care in the United States controlled by the federal government. With six speakers trying to convince a room that they should either vote for, or against, universal health care.
TOPIC: Should the government arrange for hospitals to network to help standardize the cost of health care?
CATEGORY: Journalistic
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AUTHOR: npr
ACCESSED: March 13, 2009
SUPPORT: Art Kellerman, a professor of emergency medicine and associate dean for health policy at Emory University; Paul Krugman, a professor of economics at Princeton University and a columnist for The New York Times; Michael Rachlis, a doctor and health policy analyst and a professor at the University of Toronto; Michael F. Cannon, the Cato Institute’s director of health policy studies; Sally C. Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute; John Stossel, an ABC News correspondent and co-anchor of 20/20.
AUDIENCE & AGENDA: Debating in front of a live crowd each of the debaters are trying to convince the audience to sway to their side. With three speakers against the universal health care and three for the health care plan, both sides provide strong arguments for the audience to change their mind about government provided health care.
USEFULNESS: This debate provides both sides of the argument, with the back up of facts behind each of the speakers opinion. With universal coverage always being something that might work for the United States, this broadcast tells why it wouldn’t work for Americans, and why we need a different solution. Also with the debate there was a poll taken before and after the speakers gave their views on the issue.
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