The United States must think long and hard about how to solve the many problems a universal healthcare system would create before it adopts such a policy. Government regulation, job loss, and the ever-present problem of how to pay for universal health care are factors this country is not prepared to surmount. Most proposals for universal health care are based on government management, which is less than favorable. Government management could result in patients having fewer choices about what doctors they can see. It could also mean that patients would receive worse care or have to wait longer to receive care. Some people even worry that personal information could be compromised because it would be regulated by the government. The idea that people who are currently insured privately could face a decreased quality of care is, perhaps, the most concerning. What is the first reason the author addresses?

Explain what effect the repetition of the lines brennan on the moor, brennan on the moor, bold and undaunted stood young brennan on the has on the meaning of the poem. answer asap. you!

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification

According to the author, where can we find the answer to our nation’s “most pressing problem”? does that seem logical?