MCC Rio Salado Community College Healthcare Discussion
Module References:
- View Video: PBS Frontline Sick Around the World
- View Video: PBS Frontline Sick Around America (55 min)
Right to Health care ProCon
Assignment:
Using the readings and activities from the module “Today’s Healthcare System” and supplemental information you find, respond to the first four questions found below – please note that Question 5 may be substituted for question 3. Each question will require at least one paragraph (your initial response post should be between 300 and 600 words). Use course concepts and terminology in your answer, bolding those words.
- In your own words, what does the phrase, “Healthcare is a right” mean?
- Using (and citing) information you learned from from this module, discuss if you believe healthcare should or should not be provided by the government.
- If you were in charge of creating the “next” American healthcare system, what system of healthcare would you choose and why? Please cite and reference information from (or related to) the materials in this module, and features of the system of at least one other country to support your discussion.
- Review the OECD tables and text in your textbook which show statistics for the US and other OECD nations.
- Which OECD table has information about the United States surprised you?
- Why does it surprise you?
- Why do you think the United States has that OECD statistic?
- Alternative question. (You may substitute this question for Question #3.)
- How has the current COVID-19 pandemic impacted you personally?
- In your opinion, how has COVID-19 identified gaps in our current healthcare system?
- Do any of the other countries discussed in this module have a health care system in place that addresses that gap? If so, how is it addressed there?
