national health insurance

"Health care is a complicated topic that many adults struggle to understand. However, young readers need to know the facts about an issue that directly affects them now and will continue to directly affect them throughout their lives. This volume was designed to give young readers a basic understanding of the concept of universal health care and why people support and oppose it. Readers are presented with concise, unbiased information about both sides of the universal health care debate. The accessible main text is accompanied by informative fact boxes, graphic organizers, and full-color photographs"--Provided by the publisher.

"Presents an . . . overview of the health care debate from [different angles, offering] insight into questions of who provides and regulates health care and how questions of health coverage have played out in domestic and international politics"--Amazon.

Examines the invention and reinvention of universal health care in the United States, examining a wide range of proposals for all-encompassing health reform since the twentieth century and explaining why they have failed.

" This inside story of the legal challenge to Obamacare from a conservative constitutional lawyer involved in the movement is a brilliant mixture of legal, political, and media intrigue capped by a truly consequential Supreme Court decision"--.

Presents eleven essays that debate the topic of America's need for a national health insurance policy, and addresses issues such as health care fraud, personal health plans, overall cost to the consumer, and health care reform.

Presents differing viewpoints on the issues of health care legislation.

Explore the specific issue of universal health care through a wide range of highly respected expert opinions in a unique pro-con format. Promotes issue awareness as well as critical thinking.