AWOL - Health Care Assignment

In our study of health care you've been asked questions, lectured, watched SiCKO, heard from Danish students, and checked facts. You've asked your family about their own health care experiences and also had the chance to survey passerbys and done some independent research. Now its time to integrate these ideas, informations, and inquiries into a interesting and intelligent essay.

Some questions you might focus on in your post (due April 26 at noon).
1. Should the U.S. move to a Canadian, French, or English model of health care?
2. Would Obama's plan be an improvement - or should we instead pursue single-payer (Canada) or socialist (Britain) healthcare?
3. What are the major problems with the U.S. health care system?
4. What does the U.S.'s lack of guaranteed universal health care and guaranteed vacation show about the "American Way of Life"?
5. What are the emotional, social, and political implications of the lack of guaranteed health care in the US and our relative powerlessness dealing with HMOs? How does this connect with poverty and our government's relationship to capitalist corporations?

Please cite multiple sources (check out some NY Times articles, Wikipedia, quote people) and please integrate these ideas into a paper of 700+ words.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92419273