ESSAY QUESTIONS FOR UNIT I

CHAPTER ONE

What is inside people's heads when it comes to the health care industry that differs from reality in the health care industry?

What is holding back U.S. health care reform?

CHAPTER TWO

Should Americans be concerned about the fact that the average tenure of U.S. Supreme Court justices has increased to almost thirty years, when every other major court of its kind in the world has rejected life tenure and forty-nine out of fifty states have rejected it for their state supreme courts?

Should the independent federal regulatory agencies be truly independent and free of executive and legislative branch control?

Do Americans still have a limited government that exists to preserve freedom; for the most part, does this principle still apply to health care?

Should American health care regulation authority be consolidated into one executive agency, or are there benefits to having multiple agencies involved?

CHAPTER THREE

Should health care costs be regulated through anti-fraud enforcements?

Has the health industry adequately addressed all the potential areas of high risk that have been identified by the government?

Besides the safe harbor provisions, are there any other potential areas of high risk?

Do DPAs serve the public interest?

Does the health industry respond promptly enough to detected health care fraud?

Does the health industry voluntarily undertake effective corrective actions when problems are detected?

Are the primary sources of guidance from the health industry and government too mechanical or are they an effective means of defining health care compliance?