Learning Objective:

Demonstrate critical thinking and analysis

Recognize relationships among different disciplinary approaches to the study of human cultures and the natural world

Integrate learning from different disciplines to illuminate intersecting topics of investigation

Week #7 Individual Assignment

Refer to the readings and videos from this week and previous weeks where necessary to answer the following questions:

Why do you think Massachusetts' health care reform (Chapter 58) passed almost unanimously, but the ACA was such a divisive political issue?

What are the shortcomings of Chapter 58? What does it do well?

How should liberal supporters of the ACA view GBIO's socially active and morally tendentious arguments, given secular liberal qualms about religious arguments in public life?

In your opinion, how should we calculate a person's or a family's fair share contribution to the social good of health care?

Is it ethical for a government to impose an individual mandate on healthcare like the one found in the ACA?