An important purpose of this assignment is to examine what the different branches and layers of government do to address a policy using a current issue to illustrate it.

Complete a research essay on the government and healthcare. Remember this is being written for the president to read. 

The U.S. healthcare system has been a controversial topic for decades. Here are the aspects and questions to address for this essay:

1. Identify a current issue being debated about the American healthcare system and state a preferred solution to it and why it’s preferred (This is your thesis statement).
2. Explain two competing solutions to this problem while addressing the responsibilities of each level of government (federal, state, and local) and the three branches of the federal government (executive, legislative, and judicial).
3. Build the argument for why your chosen solution is preferable, what critics say about the solution, and finally why the critics are wrong. 

REQUIREMENTS:

• 750 word target length (about three pages), not including references listed at the end or footnotes if used.
• Incorporation of concepts and terms from the required readings.
• Inclusion of facts from a recent news article about the topic/solution.
• Correct spelling, grammar, and formatting, whether it’s APA, MLA, or Chicago/Turabian.
• See the essay rubric for further details on grading.

Writing tips:

1) Write concisely! More is not necessarily better if the required points from the rubric are missed. 

2) Essays should be written in the third person perspective. (Avoid using “I, me, my, mine, we, us, our, you, your”).

 

Assignment:

• Use the tool of your choice (RStudio, Excel, Python) to generate a word document with basic data analysis of the data set posted in the Week 2 content folder.
• Create a Word document that includes the screen shots described below.

Questions/Requests:

• Create a summary of statistics for the dataset. (provide a screen shot)
• Create a correlation of statistics for the dataset. (provide a screen shot)
• What is the Min, Max, Median, and Mean of the Price? (provide a screen shot)
• What is the correlation values between Price, Ram, and Ads? (provide a screen shot)
• Create a subset of the dataset with only Price, CD, and Premium. (provide a screen shot)
• Create a subset of the dataset with only Price, HD, and Ram where Price is greater than or equal to $1750. (provide a screen shot)
• What percentage of Premium computers were sold? (provide a screen shot)(Hint: Categorical analysis)
• How many Premium computers with CDs were sold? (provide a screen shot)(Hint: Contingency table analysis)

How many Premium computers with CDs priced over $2000 were sold? (provide a screen shot)(Hint: Conditional table analysis)