Midterm #2, Long Essay Pool 2008
- Why was the Chicago heat
wave of 1995 not recognized as a disaster before Klinenberg
wrote his book?
- The health insurance
system has moved in the direction of charging a rate of payment to those
who are insured that more accurately reflects their risk of making claims
against their insurance. Discuss the pros and cons of this change and
whether or not assertion this
change makes the system more fair.
- How was race related to
death rates in the Chicago heat wave of 1995?
- Assess the practicality
of establishing a system for rationing health care in the United States.
- Evaluate the health care
proposals of John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama in terms of
the sociological articles we have read about national health care in the
United States.