- "The way that dominant social practices around illness and dying connect with dominant social practices around dying has to do with making money." This quote from your post does a great job of summing up the American health care system. Although in places like England, the incentives are actually a bit more noble as far as care distribution goes, it is the perfect way to describe health care in America. Nixon said himself that making sure patients get less care is a good thing if it means more profit is getting reeled in. I also liked the way you connected the illness and dying unit to the food unit that we are doing now Good job!
- I liked the way you were able to connect this unit to your thoughts about certain health-related aspects of life in the future. I also really liked the way you used evidence from other peoples blogs in order to support the conclusions of your own opinions. "Our country needs to sort out its priorities." This was a very interesting line to me, because in my opinion, it seems like the country already has sorted out its priorities for health care. They just are not beneficial for most people in America.
- Even though I do not go to the school you go to or take this class, I feel like you did a good job summarizing everything that you learned. It seemed like the main part of what you learned during the unit was directly related to what you did for your final project, and all the problems with the incentives of our health care system as well. Good job!
- "It is also unfortunate that our system invests practically all the money that it spends on health care on terminal patients, rather than preventive medicine that would help to keep patients from getting sick in the first place." This is an interesting point that I had never really thought about before. It would be interesting to do some more further research on something like this, but I think a strong case can be made supporting an increase in preventive care as well as health care outside of the United States, which you accomplished in your project.
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