Topic: Health Care Insurance General Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to believe the United States should have a health care insurance program, which eliminates private health insurance. Thesis: The United States needs a national health care insurance program because the development of private health care insurance and the lack of a national plan throughout history have lead to a deficiency in proper health care for many Americans. Introduction: In the United …showed first 75 words of 1921 total…

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