I am currently researching universal healthcare in the U.S. as part of a research paper I am writing for college (ten pages), but I am having trouble finding academically accepted sources that don't have a liberal bias that aren't old. Does anyone have any resource suggestions?
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I don't think so. You can choose between a liberal bias and a conservative bias - the latter of which they probably won't accept. Pick your poison.
I've long tried to figure out if a free-market system is better, which American right-wingers are absolutely convinced of, or government-paid health care, which is what the rest of the world is convinced of. Some you can deduce based on basic economics. Government health care sets prices and depresses supply (so shortages/waiting lists). Free market health care means not everyone can afford it. For the rest, I'm as perplexed as ever.
Except America doesn't even have actual free market health care. Our government has long stuck in fingers in the pie. Obama just gouged it out with his Obama care. Hospitals do not turn away people who can't pay and it's highly unlikely to have garnished wages if you don't pay
That hospitals can't turn you away if you can't pay doesn't (for emergency care) doesn't make it not a free market system though. That is a rather weak excuse.
And this can't explain why per capita spending on health care is so much higher in the US than elsewhere, with outcomes that are not better.
That said, I also consider that US lifestyles are way more unhealthy, which probably has a good deal to do with those worse outcomes.