It’s that time of day again

So it's almost midnight and I'm trying to write a rough draft for my research paper on national healthcare for tomorrow. I assume everyone already knows that me being up this late generally means that I am:

• having a writers block
  
• having a writers anxiety attack
  
• procrastinating
  
• or (I must admit) fall into bad habits
  

That said, I will try using this time right now to brainstorm some ideas for tomorrow's rough draft...so here I go...all thanks to the suggestions of a poster on CF and this Purdue resource.

How will I organize this paper? Let me see.... (need to keep in mind that this is supposed to be 6-8 pages long by December 5th or so)

1. Introduction to the debate on healthcare
   
   1. Outline my "argument" (remember, this is an interpretative argumentative research paper, I need to show info and then interpret it and argue for/against national healthcare in the US)
      
      1. First the US side of things
         
      2. Then French side of things
         
      3. An analysis of both
         
      4. And then the argument
         
   2. Introduce my research question and thesis statement: "It is the proposal of this paper that, with certain key modifications, the adaptation of a similar program to that of the National Health Insurance (NHI) provided by the French government might prove to be a successful resolution." (from annotated biblio)
      
2. US
   
   1. Do some gallup polls
      
      1. Bring up American's dissatisfactions and satisfactions with the healthcare system
         
         1. Can later tie this in to the argument for a combined system
            
            1. Longer lines
               
            2. Better technology
               
            3. Satisfied with own coverage, but not with Americans' coverage
               
   2. Bring in info from that senator's health testimony
      
      1. Bring up healthcare costs
         
   3. From the health care book
      
      1. Make sure to cite it as a paper, not a book. It's a collection of essays
         
   4. Social Security
      
      1. Give some details of how it works
         
3. France
   
   1. Bring in info from that basics book
      
      1. Outline how the French system works.
         
         1. It is both government and private controlled.
            
         2. Many, many benefits
            
   2. Introduce costs of French system (from France paper)
      
      1. How it is still lower than the costs of the US system
         
      2. How it is more widespread
         
      3. How it satisfies more people (gallup poll time)
         
   3. Had a huge reform in 2005, extended eligibility to all residents, covers 100% of people in France.
      
      1. Get some more details on this
         
         1. Does this mean if I go there as a tourist who just "happened" to have a knee problem I can go to the hospital for free and get operated on?
            
      2. Anti-competition rules when it comes to Funds.
         
   4. Is there a French equivalent of Social Security?
      
      1. If not, bring up how they calculate how much each person is going to pay towards NHI
         
4. Analysis of US and French systems
   
   1. Won't really have to do, they've been outlined in the points above.
      
5. Argument
   
   1. Because of the high healthcare costs in the US, the low satisfaction rate, the high concerns with it, and (don't emphasize this point, just casually bring it up) that the US is the only industrialized nation without some type of universal healthcare/insurance, we need to switch to a French type of system.
      
   2. French system better.
      
      1. Higher satisfactions
         
         1. Bring up a horror story from the US system
            
         2. Bring up a good story from the French system
            
         3. French are overall happier than US
            
   3. Lower costs
      
   4. Better morals
      
      1. ???
   Hmm…I think that's it for brainstorming right now. Maybe I'll continue later on (in a week or so), right now I need to write a page or two for my rough draft.

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Ps. I wrote this in Word 2007, please forgive the formatting issue...I still need to figure out what default font and size is in this blog.