Describe the structure and history of America's fee-for-service health care system.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideas answer should include:
1. Fee-for-service system means that the individual must pay for medical care and the cost is not rolled into taxes.
2. During WWII, health insurance was offered as a fringe benefit.
3. By 1950s and 1960s, health insurance was firmly tied to employment.
4. By 1970s, health insurance costs began to climb, and small businesses were the first to stop providing health insurance.
5. Today only 53 percent of firms offer insurance to employees.
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In the industrial 19th century U.S., love was idealized as
a. an emotional relationship between women who were platonic (non-sexual), close friends. b. the asexual love between mother and child. c. an emotional, non-sexual relationship between a woman and man who were not married or not yet married. d. an emotional relationship between husband and wife that included a good, fulfilling, and active sexual relationship.
In the feature about Barbara Ehrenreich working at low-wage jobs, we learned that she ________
a. was able to make a good living right from the start. b. worked very hard, but never made enough money to pay for her basic needs. c. found most of her coworkers to be dull and lazy. d. was eventually convinced that personal ability is everything.
If we knew that 13 percent of the U.S. population in 2010 was foreign-born, we would have information about the
a. flow of immigrants. b. stock of immigrants. c. influx of immigrants. d. characteristics of immigrants.
Which of the following is not true about Jacques Ellul's assessments of modern technological society?
A. He expressed concern that we lose something human when living in a technique-focused system. B. He argued that the key factor to consider is technique rather than technology. C. He was concerned about our commitment to maximizing efficiency and productivity. D. He argued that we need to focus more on measuring success in quantitative terms.