Heathcare
Choose Topic: Health and Medicare
- Identify and discuss the policy responsibilities of the Department of Health and Human Services. Are these responsibilities appropriate? Do you think there should be additional responsibilities?
- Based on what you know about financing of the healthcare system, do you think spending close to18-20% of the GDP on healthcare is appropriate? Explain your answer.
- If you were able to alter the distribution of power in relation to healthcare decision- making, how would this redistribution look between state and the federal governments?
- Please comment on one of the web-sites you reviewed this unit, what were your thoughts, any surprises, how might the content influence healthcare reform or health system evolution