Assignment:
Answer the following questions:
Question 1. What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of the current healthcare system in the United States?
Question 2. About how many individuals in the US go bankrupt each year due to medical bills?
Question 3. What can make a person uninsurable in the private health insurance market?
Question 4. Does the health insurance system in the US affect the work of health scientists? Why or why not?
Question 5. What is rescission?
Question 6. What are some of the reasons why people may not want to buy health insurance?
Question 7. How does the health care system in the US differ from the system in other developed countries?
Question 8. What are some of the challenges in reforming the health insurance system?
Question 9. As a future health science professional, how would you reform the health insurance/care system in the United States? Write at least two paragraphs describing how you would reform the system.