1. What changes do you feel are likely to be made to Social Security in the next 15 to 20 years? Why?
2. In June 2000, 58 illegal Chinese immigrants were found dead in a sealed area of a truck, smothered by heat and lack of air during a five-hour journey to Britain. Similar situations occur frequently as illegal Mexican immigrants cross the U.S. border, often locked in small airless vehicles. Who do you think is to blame for these situations? Is it the desperate immigrants, the crime syndicates that provide the transportation, a rigid immigration system, a public attitude of hostility toward immigration, or a global economic system that permits poverty in ome country alongside prosperity in another?
3. Why do you think so many state and local governments are greatly concerned about the Federal government's allegedly lax enforcement of the immigration laws and congressional proposals to grant legal status (amnesty) to the 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States? How might an amnesty program affect the flow of future border crossings?
4. Explain how each of the following affects the demand for health care: (1) physician sovereignty (the doctor controls the treatment), (2) third-party payment (health insurance), (3) defensive medicine, and (4) attitudes of patients.
5. Do you believe that basic medical care is a right of citizenship? Explain your answer.
6. Do you believe that The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) should be repealed? If not, how can it be improved? If you do believe it should be repealed, how would you replace it?