Compare and contrast the free market and single-payer systems for healthcare.
What will be an ideal response?
1. Both are models for delivering healthcare to a population.
2. Free market systems allow private insurance companies, and other interest groups, to compete in the market for profits. This model is the current way the U.S. healthcare market is structured and has proven to be working well for some, but overall is expensive (especially for employers who provide health insurance as a benefit to workers) and inefficient. Most countries have abandoned the idea that this is a “good” model for administering healthcare to a population.
3. A single-payer system is what many other countries have turned to. It is one in which the government plays a major role in the administration of healthcare to a population. There are fewer administrative costs because the system is streamlined – one payer for all claims. Administrative costs are reduced, employer costs are eliminated, and everyone has coverage.
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a. AIDS hysteria. c. homophobia. b. heterosexism. d. radical morality.
Those who believe that poverty results from structural factors beyond the control of individuals would see which of the following as a source of poverty?
a. unequal distribution of educational resources b. universal health care c. decreasing income inequality d. immorality of the poor
Which of the following is true of conditions in urban areas?
A) Poverty is not an issue in these areas. B) People of color do not live in these areas. C) There are large areas that are racially segregated. D) The best schools are in the poorest areas.
Ethnic enclaves can develop only when businesses, financial expertise, and capital are combined with a disciplined labor force.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)