Reference no: EM131061564

Part 1:

1. Is access to affordable health care a just outcome of antitrust regulations in the U.S.?

2. What is competitive health care, and is a competitive health care industry an end or the means to the higher end of ensuring every U.S. resident the right to health care?

3. Is the profitability of the health care industry hostile to or contributive to its social responsibilities?

4. Should the U.S. seek to minimize the necessity of resorting to government over-regulation and burdensome restrictions on the health care industry?

5. Is wealth creation a characteristic of wealth or does it tend to create more wealth, and what role should the government play in fostering wealth creation in the health care industry?

Part 2:

1. If the law requires consistency in the way individuals are treated, what legal standards are prevailing for accessing health care in the U.S. today?

2. Should the uninsured, underinsured, and Medicaid-eligible individuals and families have the same rights to access health care as the privately insured?

3. Who should get included and excluded in any insurance risk-pooling process?

4. What type of systems of accountability and checks and balances should be suffi cient to produce an insurance risk-pooling system that is equitable, as well as effi cient and fl exible?

5. What standards should govern access to health care?

Part 3:

1. What should be considered life-threatening?

2. Should there be a limit on the total amount of coverage Medicaid will provide?

3. Should coverage be revoked if it turns out an individual's experience was not life-threatening?

4. Should states be able to place limitations upon enrollment in Medicaid, such as maintenance of a healthy weight, not smoking, and not abusing drugs?

5. Is the argument for universal health care better supported by a financial or ethical basis?