Lesson 04 Grour Assignment

Lesson 04 Grour Assignment

Assignment Instructions:

In the national healthcare conversations, many terms are used interchangeably, and many times incorrectly, to describe healthcare systems and structures.

Universal Healthcare is a stated goal of many countries. There are many ways to achieve this, and two ways are through a single-payer healthcare structure, or through socialized medicine (there are other hybrid models as well). For this assignment you will be asked to clarify and articulate key systems, resulting in a coherent group paper.

Questions:

  • Define Universal Healthcare – what is it? Why would a country want to achieve this? What has to happen for this to be possible? What are the pros and cons of Universal Healthcare?
  • Define single payer healthcare – what is it? How does it work? What are the pros and cons to such a system?
    • Give two examples of countries or states that have single payer systems; describe how it works in those countries, including eligibility and how it is funded
  • Define socialized medicine – what is it? How does it work? What are the pros and cons of such a system? How does it differ from a single payer healthcare system?
    • Give two examples of countries that have socialized medicine systems; describe how it works in those countries, including eligibility and how it is funded
  • What kind of healthcare system / systems do we have in the United States? What are the
    consequences of such a system?