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Unit 4B: Writing an Argument Portfolio
Follow each step of the directions below to successfully complete this portfolio.
Directions: Once you have received feedback on your completed outline, make any suggested corrections, and format your outline into your final paper in MLA format. You will submit it to Unit 4 Lesson 11 (Writing an Argument Portfolio 3 Lesson) on 2/1/24 in your Student Planner in Connexus. It should look like the example here when you are finished.
Important Resources:
Rubric for Portfolio
Articles, Internal (In-Text) Citations, and Works Cited Pages
Outline Example
Final Portfolio Example
MLA Format Guidelines
example per the rubric:
Andrew Miller
Dr. Miller
Language Arts
28 November 2023
Free Healthcare For Everyone
In many places around the world, human beings are denied healthcare due to the contents of their wallets. This leaves people choosing between their lives and their bank accounts, a situation no one should be put in. Offering free, universal healthcare is a solution that would provide everyone, regardless of their economic status, free access to healthcare whenever they need it. However, universal healthcare can increase taxes and potentially make waiting times for medical procedures longer. Free, universal healthcare should be provided for everyone around the world. Free access to healthcare is a human right that could reduce the pain and suffering of billions of people.
Free healthcare would allow people to go to the doctor whenever they need to, instead of enduring the agony of illnesses due to the high cost of care. The Alma-Ata Declaration, an important event in global health history, helped raise awareness of universal healthcare as a means of reducing suffering and misery. Other organizations, such as the United Nations and World Health Organization have been proponents of universal health care for these reasons as well (Bloom et al.). This demonstrates that large world organizations see the importance of providing universal health care as a human right to reduce the distress and hardship that people have from not having access to affordable healthcare. Although other organizations, governments, and corporations do not always agree with this idea, it is logical that human beings deserve the right to live their best, healthy lives. Without access to free healthcare for everyone, this is not possible. On top of helping sick people in need, universal healthcare could also save the world money in the long run.
A key advantage of universal healthcare is it could help reduce and treat the number of people with chronic diseases, which are often expensive to treat once the diseases have reached later stages. In the United States, there are a large number of people with chronic health conditions, such as cardiovascular diseases, obesity, and type II diabetes. These diseases end up costing not only those affected, but strain the U.S. economy as well. If these people had access to free healthcare, these diseases could be better managed (Zieff et al.). This evidence shows that universal healthcare could save money for governments and economies in the long term. By treating chronic diseases, countries like the United States could eventually see their healthcare costs decrease, while also providing their citizens with the care they need to be healthy. Although universal healthcare has the potential to help sick people in need and save money, there are some possible downsides as well.
Some people think that free universal healthcare would be too expensive to start and that it leads to longer waiting times for procedures. Many researchers agree that the implementation of universal healthcare would include heavy start-up costs, primarily in the areas of infrastructural changes to the healthcare system, insuring and treating uninsured and unhealthy parts of the population, and expanding services that were not previously available (Zieff et al.). The financial cost of starting universal healthcare is also described by researchers as a barrier that would end up costing citizens even more than current private healthcare systems (Bloom et al.). In addition, another common argument against universal healthcare is that it leads to longer wait times for patients to see doctors and for important procedures. Canada is a prime example, where the average wait time for arthroplastic surgery was 20-52 weeks in 2017 (Zieff et al.). Despite the upfront costs of universal healthcare, it could ultimately be a system that reduces long term costs through the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases. Also, cost should not be a factor when discussing the health of human beings, the most important part of a happy existence. Although longer wait times are expected for care, individuals should be willing to wait if that means that everyone can be given the same access to these vital procedures and appointments. With healthcare treated as a human right and not just the right of those with money and insurance, our world would be a better, more equitable place.
Universal healthcare that is free to all people should be a human right for all. This type of healthcare would eliminate the predicament of having to shell out large amounts of money to get treatment and reduce the medical hardship placed on people in many current healthcare systems. On top of this, despite the start-up costs, universal healthcare could lead to money being saved over time by treating chronic health conditions. With universal healthcare, the days of deciding between someone’s life or their money would be over, and this would be a better world for everyone.
Articles:
These are the articles you MUST use for your Writing an Argument Portfolio. Read the articles before you start writing your portfolio, and make sure you include information from these articles in your portfolio.
Option 1 Articles: Should all schools provide education in the arts, including music, art, and drama?
Option 2 Articles: Do schools place too much importance on standardized tests?
Option 3 Articles: Does requiring school uniforms unfairly restrict students’ self-expression?
Option 4 Articles: Should governments help eliminate single-use plastics, such as disposable tableware, take-out containers, and packaging?
Option 5 Articles: Is it ethical for billionaires to amass so much wealth when so many citizens are living in poverty?
Citations
Parenthetical (In-Text) Citations
Use these after every time you finish using information from the articles above, whether you are paraphrasing (putting the information in your own words), or directly quoting.
Option 1 Parenthetical (In-Text) Citations
Article 1- Arts Education- (“Arts Education”)
Article 2- Does Arts Education Matter?- (Goodwin and Hubler 83-84)
Option 2 Parenthetical (In-Text) Citations
Article 1- Student Testing: The Stakes Are Rising- (Samuelsen 30)
Article 2- No More TESTS!: CHALLENGING STANDARDIZED EDUCATION- (Wetzel 68)
Option 3 Parenthetical (In-Text) Citations
Article 1- School Uniforms: Should Your School be Telling You What to Wear?- (“School Uniforms: Should Your School Be Telling You What to Wear?”)
Article 2- Wearing a Uniform Actually Has Its Benefits- (Robock)
Option 4 Parenthetical (In-Text) Citations
Article 1- What to Do About Plastic Pollution- (“What to Do About Plastic Pollution” 8)
Article 2- Plastics: Good or Evil? Friend or Foe?- (“Plastics: Good or Evil? Friend or Foe” 3)
Option 5 Parenthetical (In-Text) Citations
Article 1- Poverty- (Peng 34)
Article 2- Sharing the Wealth- (Sachs 81)
Works Cited Pages
Copy and paste the Works Cited page linked below that aligns with the topic you chose. Make sure your Works Cited page is on its own separate page at the very end of your paper.
Option 1 Works Cited
Option 2 Works Cited
Option 3 Works Cited
Option 4 Works Cited
Option 5 Works Cited
Use standard, white 8.5 x 11-inch paper
Double-space the text of your paper
Standard font (Times, Calibri, Arial, Cambria, etc.)
12 point font
Leave only one space after periods or other punctuation marks
One inch margins on all sides of your document
Use the tab key to indent each paragraph
