HSA532 ASU Universal Healthcare Sick Around The World Answer the questions based on the video Assignment 2 – Frontline: “Sick Around the World” – Discussio

HSA532 ASU Universal Healthcare Sick Around The World Answer the questions based on the video Assignment 2 – Frontline: “Sick Around the World” – Discussion Questions.
1. What does “universal health care” mean? Which countries in the film have universal
healthcare?
2. Before the Affordable Care Act, U.S. insurance companies could deny coverage to people who
are sick or who have “pre-existing conditions,”:
a. How do these two factors impact American health care?
b. What difference has the ACA made?
3. How do the British pay for their National Health Service? What, according to the film, might
Americans not like about the British system?
4. Japanese citizens visit doctors three times as often as Americans, and have longer life spans and
lower infant mortality than Americans. How do the Japanese pay for their health care system?
5. In Germany, the rich pay for the poor, the ill are covered by the healthy, health insurance
continues with or without employment, and doctors, who are private entrepreneurs, make less
money than they did before reform.
a. Why will doctors in Germany accept less money?
b. Should the rich pay for the poor when it comes to health insurance?
6. Taiwan designed its health care system in 1995, after looking at health care in 10-15 other
countries.
a. What do you think works well in the Taiwanese system?
b. How is Taiwan struggling to balance the hopes of patients, the needs of doctors and the
cost of treatment?
7. Until 1994, Switzerland linked health insurance to employment; if you lost your job, you lost
your insurance. But after the Swiss voted in a new system called LAMal, everyone had to buy
health insurance, and insurance companies could not make a profit. Why were the Swiss willing
to make this change? Why have people become more supportive of LAMal as time has
progressed?
8. At present, 40-50 million Americans are without health insurance. After watching the film, do
you believe that providing universal health care should be the policy of the United States? Why
or why not?
9. Should U.S. insurance companies be allowed to make a profit? Why or why not?
10.

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