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?