Sicko Test

Mr. Reints

Name: 

1) How many Americans do not have health insurance?       

2) How many Americans die every year because they don’t have health insurance

3) How many Americans have health insurance?

4) Why do some Americans continue to work into their late seventies and beyond because of health  insurance?

 
 5) Why do health insurance companies have a policy of denying their paying clients benefits? 

6) List at least three reasons health insurance companies deny claimants benefits?

7) What is a deductable? 4 marks

8) How do health insurance companies encourage employees to deny claimants benefits? 1 mark

9) Name at least 2 American beliefs and, or values that support the current heath care model in the USA.   

10) What health care model did (does) Hillary Clinton believe in?

11) How much money was spent and by whom to defeat Hilary Clinton’s health care model?

12) Where did (does?) the American health care system rank among the countries of the world?

13) What is a lobbyist?

14) After the defeat of Hillary Clinton’s health care model why did many congressmen leave their jobs?     

15) Who is responsible for Canada’s universal social health care system coming into existence and what honor was bestowed  upon that individual a few years ago?

16) In the video it showed a case where an American paid $12, 000  to have the tip of one finger reattached. How much did it cost a Canadian to have all the fingers on one hand reattached?

 17) Describe and explain the relationship between health care and equality and freedom.

18) Who has the shortest life expectancy: Canadians; Americans; British; French?

 19) A doctor interviewed in France stated a belief that comes from a 19^th century philosopher that explains the reasoning behind their health care system. State the belief and the name of the philosopher.

20) According to Michael Moore a society can be judged by how it treats its: