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S. have a culture of poverty?
Understanding poverty in the U.S. requires looking beyond the current generation. Viewed more broadly, poverty today is directly linked to the opportunities enjoyed and challenges faced by previous generations (Ehrenreich, 2009). Minority communities, (especially those composed of individuals whose ancestors were enslaved and discriminated against) still suffer economically from the corresponding lower wealth of their parents and grandparents (Ehrenreich, 2009). Those raised in poverty have fewer opportunities for advancement and typically depend on low-income employment within a perpetual cycle that can be impossible to break free from (Ehrenreich, 2009).
4. At least 200 words - Health care is an issue of considerable public interest. In particular, access and costs are key issues. Identify the challenges of a national health care reform.
On one hand, the current health care situation is untenable because it already absorbs 17% of the entire gross domestic product and is projected to reach as high as 40% within a decade if nothing is done to resolve the underlying issues (Reid, 2009). Meanwhile, the quality of U.S. healthcare now rates behind nearly three-dozen other nations and approximately 40,000 Americans die annually from treatable medical conditions because they cannot afford health insurance or health care services (Reid, 2009). In principle, one of the most important areas of necessary reform is the shift from a fee-for-services model of health care provider compensation to the results-based fee structure that incentivizes optimal care.
Another important area of necessary reform is the elimination of the government lobbying process through which special...
Finally, the entire concept of private for-profit provision of health care is antithetical to the notion of health care. Congress should probably place some reasonable limitations on the maximum profits from health care more broadly than the Affordable Care Act now limits what health insurance providers can earn from premiums. In all likelihood, the only way to resolve the current problems in American health care is to adopt a single-payer scheme such as those that have proven successful in Britain, Canada, and the member nations of the European Union (Kennedy, 2006).
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