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One of the most curious aspects of American culture to residents of other industrialized democracies is the American attitude towards freedom, as currently expressed in the healthcare debate. Americans have articulated a great deal of hostility about being 'forced' to buy health insurance, despite the fact that 1. National and state government-run programs already exist in the form of Medicare and Medicaid and 2. Healthcare is a necessity. Bankruptcies due to health-related issues are nonexistent in nations such as Great Britain and Canada, where participation in the national system of health insurance is mandatory, yet in America there is a tendency to view that 'what you get is what you deserve,' and those who fall behind in their healthcare bills are somehow exhibiting moral failings regarding their ability to budget or to find work that provides health insurance.
Given that self-employed businesspeople often lack health insurance, while the very poor do have some form of healthcare through Medicaid, such attitudes are contradictory as well as misguided. In America, however, there is a strong tradition of mistrusting government intervention of any kind, and a belief that the government that governs best, governs least. This has generated a great deal of animosity towards healthcare regulation, despite highly-publicized incidents of insurance companies treating patients poorly and denying needed care.
There are social and financial healthcare costs born by the entire population over the long-term that are rooted people not receiving care and Americans waiting until they are critically ill and must be treated in an intensive and expensive fashion. But these are not factored into the view that 'choosing' not to have healthcare is a 'right' and a freedom.
Q2. Define the different characteristics of etic vs. emic OR qualitative vs. quantitative research (choose one).
Simply put, 'etic' and 'emic' definitions relate to 'outsider' and 'insider' definitions of culture. "The etic perspective...relies upon the extrinsic concepts and categories that have meaning for scientific observers... The validation of etic knowledge thus becomes a matter of logical and empirical analysis -- in particular,...
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