US Healthcare Systems Group Organizations and Fast Food
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1. What factors contribute to the disparities in health care among racial, ethnic, gender, and social class groups in the United States? How do you think these disparities will affect people seeking testing and treatment for COVID-19 in the United States?
2. What do you think are the best and worst parts of the PPACA? Why?
3. Compare and contrast the health care system of the United States with the WHO’s Millennium Development Goals.
4. How has technology changed your primary groups and secondary groups? Do you have more (and separate) primary groups due to online connectivity? Do you believe that someone, like Levy, can have a true primary group made up of people she has never met? Why, or why not?
5. What do you think about the recent spotlight on fast food restaurants? Do you think they contribute to society’s ills? Do you believe they provide a needed service? Have you ever worked a job like this? What did you learn?
