2022 Sept/Oct LD:
Best Sources
Every debater's worst nightmare: the new topic gets announced, and suddenly you're tasked with finding a mountain of evidence to both back up your cases and better understand the topic. What does single payer even mean? What's the health care system in America looking like currently? What does the universe have anything to do with this? Luckily, this post will answer all of your questions and solve all of your issues, putting you ahead of the game. All of the resources linked below are relatively recent, as this topic is quite new in the American political sphere.
First Steps
As with any other topic, the first step is simple: a Google search! In fact, when searching up "single payer health care" on Google, the first result is a massive, eight-chapter long Wikipedia article with more than 150 sources embedded in it. This topic has had a robust history, and people have dedicated their entire lives towards this one field of study. The point? The internet is at your fingertips, and often a simple search is enough to point you in the right direction.
Necessary Background Sources
Next, we've compiled a list of useful resources that are an absolute must-read before delving deeper into the topic. They will serve to construct a fundamental baseline of knowledge about the current state of the health care system in America, as well has what the proposed single-payer plan will do to solve the issues within it.
A Brief History: Universal Health Care Efforts in the US
What is Single-Payer Health Care? A Review of Definitions and Proposals in the U.S.
A Predictive and Case Study Analysis to Examine the Potential Impacts of Proposed Healthcare
Expansion Policies Under the 116th Congress
The Costs of a National Single-Payer Healthcare System
The Precarious Path to Universal Health Coverage
Economic Effects of Five Illustrative Single-Payer Health Care Systems
How does universal health coverage work?
Countries With Universal Health Care 2022
Affirmative Sources
Now, we can finally move on to some side-specific research, beginning with the affirmative. Like the previous chapter, we've compiled a list of useful research in favor of single payer health care.
Listening to Low-Income Patients: Obstacles to the Care We Need, When We Need It
The Americans dying because they can't afford medical care
Why People Are Still Avoiding the Doctor (It’s Not the Virus)
Key Facts about the Uninsured Population
Health Care Industry Insights: Why the Use of Preventive Services Is Still Low
Insurers’ Efforts to Curb Wasteful Spending Are Driving Doctors Nuts
Operating at a loss: Our health care system depends on physicians donating their time
Why Prescription Drug Prices in the US Are So High
Prescription Drugs: Spending, Use, and Prices
U.S. Drug Prices Sky-High In International Comparison
How Would a Single-Payer Health System Pay for Drugs?
Single payer systems have lower drug spending than do multi-payer systems
Racial and Ethnic Inequities in Health Care Coverage and Access, 2013–2019
How Socioeconomic Status Affects Patient Perceptions of Health Care: A Qualitative Study
Socioeconomic Disparities in Health in the United States: What the Patterns Tell Us
Achieving Racial and Ethnic Equity in U.S. Health Care: Scorecard
Public Options Will Improve Health Equity Across the Country
Adopting a Single-Payer Health System
New study says 'Medicare for All' will save the U.S. money with lower healthcare costs
Socioeconomic Status and Access to Healthcare: Interrelated Drivers for Healthy Aging
Surgical wait times and socioeconomic status in a public healthcare system: a retrospective analysis
Universal Healthcare in the United States of America: A Healthy Debate
Negative Sources
Finally, we can move on to the negative, highlighting some key sources that argue against single-payer health care, instead advocating for either a different, better tool, or for the status quo. This section will follow the same format as before.
Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada
Health Care Wait Times by Country 2022
Measurement of surgical wait times in a universal health care system
Emergency department wait times increased 10% under Medicaid expansion
The impact of Medicaid expansion on emergency department wait time
Single-Payer Will Worsen Healthcare Workers' Plight
AMA maintains its opposition to single-payer systems
Burnout benchmark: 28% unhappy with current health care job
How Much Will Medicare for All Cost?
Sticker Shock: The Impact of a ‘Single-Payer’ Health Plan on New York Taxes
An Assessment of the New York Health Act: A Single-Payer Option for New York State
The Costs of a National Single-Payer Healthcare System
The Problem with Single-Payer Plans
Medicare for All Loses Support Amid Lack of Detail on Costs to Voters
Single-Payer Health Care: Why It's Not the Best Answer
Medicare for All: Leaving No One Behind
The Extremely Bad Economics Of Single-Payer Healthcare For California
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