Health and aging,Course Pack: “Why is American Health Care So Ridiculously Expensive?”Preview the document (Thompson, 2013) “Seven reasons why U.S. Health Care is so expensive: why do we pay more for less?”Preview the document (Mack, 2017) “The Devastat

Resources:

https://youtu.be/hpy1VROVR1I (From this lecture)

Textbook link: http://open.lib.umn.edu/socialproblems/ 
(Chapters 6 & 13)

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Assignment:

1. The reading and lecture cover many readings why the U.S. healthcare system is so unusually expensive. Name and define three of them.

2. According to lecture, the suicide rate in the United States has been rising since the 1990s. Name two risk factors for suicidality (and/or two populations that are at higher than average risk.) Has the U.S. suicide rate increased since the 1990s or decreased? Why, in your opinion, might that be? In your opinion, what is one step or policy change we as a society could enact to address suicide as a mental health issue