Chauncey Devin
October 22, 2008
I-Search 3 Topics
For my 3 topics, I decided on 3 topics that I thought were interesting and important to the country. Those three were nationalizing the banks, what the presidential candidates plans are for the failing healthcare system and how the New York Yankees will rebuild their team during the off-season, the latter's importance being a matter of opinion.
The healthcare system has been a concern to me since I broke my arm twice. I asked my mom how much it cost and she said a lot but we have health insurance, so it’s okay. I really began to think about it after I saw “Sicko” by Michael Moore. The movie was about how the health insurance in the US was more about profit and less about giving proper healthcare. That made me really think about health insurance is an important necessity to life. I am a big fan of universal healthcare or socialized medicine, whatever you want to call it. I believe that healthcare should be free and I don’t understand why someone would say, no, free health insurance would be bad. Originally I thought about that I might do my I-Search on what the Presidential Candidates will do with the healthcare system we have now and what they would do with it once they gained the Oval Office. I have been thinking about changing it around, so I haven’t came up with a final topic. I was thinking trying to incorporate universal healthcare.
The nationalizing of the banks is what I refer to when I talk about when the government bought bank shares in order to help the banks that are not doing so well right now. This created a bit of turmoil, saying that it is total communism, it is destroying the capitalist freedom of America, and that the free-market would fix itself. I was interested in this too.
When thinking about a third topic, I decided it would be fun to follow what the Yankees would do to rebuild their team during the off-season.
Doing my research I discovered that healthcare had, by far, the most articles and news around it, in second came the banks and last but not least, the Yanks came in third. I am leaning towards doing my I-Search on some branch of healthcare but it is always changing.
