A Proposal for Universal Health Insurance in the U.S.

This proposal argument was quite effective. The author did all of the things that are required to write a proposal argument. Bonicillo starts out with a story which appeals to the emotions of the reader, and then goes on to give many reasons why Universal Health Insurance is so important. He gives statistics about poverty stricken people that don't have insurance versus people with decent jobs and healthcare that support his argument well. He even has a nice little pie graph that shows statistics about Americans under 65 in 2001. He then goes on to propose what he thinks that we should do. For example, he says that the first thing that we need to do is to break the linkage between employment and health insurance. He even addresses the fact that Universal Health Insurance would be quite difficult to accomplish, and his last paragraph explicitly states this. I think this is all effective because when I finished reading this he had me convinced that we need Universal Health Insurance. He accomplished persuading his audience to want to act.