Describe how hospitals have sought to ensure their position within the communities they serve
Short response 1. Describe how hospitals have sought to ensure their position within the communities they serve. Analyze whether consolidation of hospitals into large corporations will change medical care in those communities. 2. Evaluate ways financing mechanisms for the care of vulnerable populations contribute to a two-class care system. 3. Two clients desperately need the use of one remaining hemodialysis machine. One is an elderly Medicaid client. The other is a young college student who has full health insurance benefits. Which client would you choose to treat? Support your answer. 4. Bioethicist, Dan Callahan, states that the root of the allocation problem in modern medicine is “our cultural inability to acknowledge limits to life and to face the reality of death.” Analyze this statement, describing your personal feelings and giving an example of this philosophy. 5. Describe which group or groups of people still have inadequate insurance coverage. Why?
