HEALTH: Conclusion

We recommend using a two step process.

Step 1. Decide which services you think are important to provide. (The services are defined in your SLI book.). Then pay for the services you choose with your bundles of money (dots). There is not enough money to fully fund all the services available.

The services are shown on the wheel, and the number of dots present indicates how expensive this service is to provide. In order to buy these services for everyone who needs them, you need to put your bundles of money (dots) on the white circles. If not all the circles are covered by bundles of money, the service is only partially funded. Any time a service is partially funded, you have decisions to make. You will need to decide which people will not receive the service from the government. Be ready to explain how you selected groups of people to exclude from government services.

You can fully fund some of the services, OR, partially fund some or all of the services.

If you decide not to fund a service at all, be ready to explain why you made this decision.

For example, say you think hospitalization is important. If you do not have enough money to fully fund hospitalization, you will need to decide who does NOT get hospitalization paid for by the government.

 There may be disagreements among the members of your group about which services to choose. Do your part to make good group decisions.  Sometimes you'll need to argue for your choice; at other times to compromise with fellow participants. This is what Congress does.

Step 2. Consider the impact of decisions your group made. You can see the results of the choices you picked by using the Event Cards.  We will give each group two cards.  On the cards you will find a medical problem one of your voters might face. Read your Event Card aloud to the small group. Discuss your small group decisions, preparing to justify them to the larger seminar group. You don't have to, but if you want to change the distribution of your bundles of money after you read your event cards, you can. Just be prepared to explain your reasons.

A few of you will be chosen to read your Event Card to the larger seminar group, telling how well your plan worked, and sharing your thoughts about it.  As you listen to each other describe the different medical situations on each card, you'll get a better and better idea of how difficult these decisions are.

Prepare to justify your small group decisions to the larger group. Remember, there are no easy, correct answers here. Every opinion counts.

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