Learning Objective: 
Putting it all together: seeing the new vision for healthcare as essentially ethical and seeking the Common Good
You should do a Question/Answer format, not a formal paper.
Week #8 Individual Assignment

Explain the six values from the Oregon project (p 216 Health Care as a Social Good).
Compare these values to those guiding their commendations in Chapter 10 of Stakeholder Health.
Describe the key features of the Costa Rican health care system.
Watch the videos of Dr. Paul Farmer and find some information about the impact of his work.

Requirements:
Answer all of the questions and submit Your submission must be double spaced with 12-point font.
Learning Objective:  
Putting it all together: seeing the new vision for healthcare as essentially ethical and seeking the Common Good in relation to a particular health concern
Week #8 PBL Assignment
Use COVID-19 to compare three health care systems: the US, the UK and Costa Rica.

What is the scope of the problem globally? In each of the countries listed above.?
What systems are in place to address it? Who are the actors?
How does this problem affect the Common Good?
Evaluate each country’s response as a) medically effective, b) socially just, and c) economically efficient
2.
Demonstrate critical thinking and analysis
Recognize relationships among different disciplinary approaches to the study of human cultures and the natural world
Integrate learning from different disciplines to illuminate intersecting topics of investigation
Week #7 Individual Assignment
Refer to the readings and videos from this week and previous weeks where necessary to answer the following questions:
 Why do you think Massachusetts’ health care reform (Chapter 58) passed almost unanimously, but the ACA was such a divisive political issue?

What are the shortcomings of Chapter 58? What does it do well?
How should liberal supporters of the ACA view GBIO’s socially active and morally tendentious arguments, given secular liberal qualms about religious arguments in public life?
In your opinion, how should we calculate a person’s or a family’s fair share contribution to the social good of health care?
Is it ethical for a government to impose an individual mandate on healthcare like the one found in the ACA?

References:
Demonstrate critical thinking and analysis
Recognize relationships among different disciplinary approaches to the study of human cultures and the natural world
Integrate learning from different disciplines to illuminate intersecting topics of investigation
Week #7 PBL Assignment
Write a paper on both the religious and nonreligious arguments against the use of euthanasia in modern health care.