This past week has been one of my favorites so far. For our Health Class we were able to take our lecture outside of the classroom, and it actually wasn't a class at all. We were given a set of questions with our partners and set out in an Italian market to survey a number of Italian citizens on how they thought of their health care system here in Italy.
At first I was very nervous about going into the market and asking our questions. When we arrived Dave and I ran into our first woman we were going to ask and she seemed very skeptical about filling out our survey. After a little while she filled out our survey and from then on out it was a little easier to ask the next nineteen people. The worst they could say was no! After looking over our results I found that many citizens did not care for the universal health care system. They did not like the care they received in the hospitals nor their family physicians.
Our final for our sociology class is to compile our results with three other people and discuss them throughout a paper. I believe this will be very interesting to see how everyone feels about the health care system and how are results compare with what age groups we have surveyed.
This class as a whole has helped to make me understand how much health care has an effect on our country and how a change can make such a difference. I do not remember when Medicare and Medicaid began to be utilized in the United States, I just always have known it was around. These programs have helped a number of individuals. By reading the assigned text in our book I have realized that it has also done some damage to the system. Some authors in our text believe that expanding Medicare will be the best option for improving health care in the United States. "Reducing administrative waste could save $300 billion each year, enough to cover all the uninsured and provide better coverage for the rest of us with complete choice of doctor and hospital." I have been torn between my own arguments and couldn't really decide where I stood on whether or not healthcare was a right or a privilege or if it would benefit the majority or not. It's hard to say and this class has helped me learn a lot about each side.
Emily,
ReplyDeleteI find it interesting how all of your surveys came back. Mine was the complete opposite! I interviewed serveral different ages, and a lot were positive!
Emily,
ReplyDeleteI had much of the same survey results that you did! It is interesting how so many of us had different results in such a small area especially because we only did it in one area. I wonder if we would have ventured out of Rome if our resluts would have been the same?
Ciao Emily,
ReplyDeleteGood blog. Glad you enjoyed the experience. Was there anything from the readings that helped make sense of your experiences?
Oops! I forgot my quote. I updated and added one. Thank you!
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