1. Please answer the following questions regarding the physician assistant debate:

• Many have argued that primary care doctors are given too much responsibility regarding direct patient care. The argument has been made that nurse practitioners and physician assistants should be utilized more effectively. What are your thoughts on this?
• Physician assistants have long argued that they have the ability to provide as much as 70 percent of the medical services provided by primary care physicians at a much lower cost. Yet government regulations limit their ability to work independently of physicians. Explain what would happen to the level of competition in the physician services market if all the statutes limiting activities of physician assistants were eliminated.

2.

Please answer the following questions regarding cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-utility analysis, and the perfect health care system.

• Give an original example of a situation in which cost-effectiveness analysis and cost-utility analysis would give you contrary results. Substantiate your answer.
• Suppose you had the opportunity to organize the perfect healthcare system. Explain how you would organize the financing method, reimbursement method, mode of production, and physician referral procedure.

3.

Please answer the following questions regarding global health and health care reform:

• Why is it so difficult to determine which country has the best health system? Describe the empirical issues related to evaluation of the systems as well as possible ways to overcome these difficulties. If you had to choose one, which country do you think has the best health system? Use course concepts to support your answer.
• Is death an enemy that is to be fought off at all costs or is it a condition of life that is to be accepted? How does the way we answer this question affect the kind of healthcare system we might embrace?

My first draft has not met the assignment, so I have to revise it

Essay #3: Analysis of a Popular Culture Artifact

Assignment: Incorporating quotations,
summaries, and paraphrases from at least two (semi-)academic sources
found through our library databases, write a 3-5 page essay analyzing a
specific popular culture artifact of your choice. (In other words, you
will need to have at least three sources for this paper—one primary
source and two or more secondary sources.) Note: Don’t be alarmed by the
term “artifact”; I’ve chosen the word simply for convenience. Depending
on your particular area of interest, acceptable “artifacts” might
include a specific television episode, a book chapter or character, the
lyrics and music of a specific song, an important thread on your
favorite discussion forum, a scene from a movie, a video game, sporting
event, magazine advertisement, or other relevant object or event.

Approaching the Assignment: Be sure to look
over this week’s reading on literary analysis, which should give you
plenty of guidance for how to approach this assignment. (Yes, I do
indeed expect you to analyze your artifact—whether a written text or
not—just as you would a short story or novel.) I do NOT want you to
write a simple review or critique; instead, I want you to provide some
sort of analytical interpretation. You might, for example,
consider how an episode of your favorite television show deals with
issues of race, class, or gender. Or you could investigate the
rhetorical appeals of a particular advertisement to discover how and/or
why it is so (in)effective at selling its product. Focusing on a
specific character from a movie, you could look more closely at
questions of personal motivation or societal influence or simply try to
figure out what makes that particular character tick. (For example, if I
were analyzing the character of Loki in the Avengers, my
thesis statement might be something like “Although initially Loki may
strike the viewer as static and one-dimensional, careful analysis
reveals that he is actually one of the most complex, emotionally nuanced
characters in the film.” [Then I would show how he isn’t just a
demented megalomaniac by examining not only what he says but also the
facial expression and body language that expose the tormented child
hiding just beneath the surface.])

Ultimately, your goal with this paper is not so much to agree or
disagree with your source, but—as I said above—to provide an
interpretation of some sort. In doing so, you will hopefully discover
how the object affects us as viewers, consumers, and/or citizens; what
the object reveals about society at large; and/or what other important
insights it has to offer.

Requirements checklist:

____ 1. Both the rough and final draft must contain at least three
full, correctly formatted pages. Please follow MLA guidelines for
formatting papers and documenting sources (see LSH, pp. 109-57).

____ 2. Your secondary sources should include substantial,
thoughtfully developed arguments related to whatever specific topic
you’ve decide to write about, but they don’t need to mention the
specific artifact.

____ 3. Entries from encyclopedias, dictionaries, and/or other
reference materials do not count toward the minimum source requirement –
although you should of course cite them if you actually quote them.

____ 4. Be sure to frame all quotations and to use signal verbs (and
in-text parenthetical citations, if needed) when you summarize or
paraphrase.

____ 5. Please attach your sources to the final draft of your essay
with a paper clip so that I can give you credit for your annotations and
offer feedback on your use of source material.

____ 6. Note that class attendance is mandatory for Monday, Feb. 6, when the librarian comes to visit.

____ 7. I also urge you all to get extra feedback from one of the
English tutors here on campus. Visit the Student Success Center in room
309 for more information.

____ 8. Any work you submit in this class should be composed by you specifically for this class. In other words, do NOT recycle papers from previous classes or present someone else’s work as your own.

____ 9. Finally, to do well on this assignment, you will need to
organize your paper around an original, clearly articulated, well-placed
thesis statement; to demonstrate a good understanding of the structural
(paragraphing, transitions, etc.) and grammatical conventions of formal
written English; and to address all assignment components.

Unit VI Literature Review

In Unit VII, you will be required to complete a research paper. The topic of your paper must be within the areas of strategic human resource management (HRM), global HRM, designing of work systems, labor relations, talent management, performance systems, or compensation systems.

For this assignment, you will create a literature review of at least five sources, appropriate to the topic you selected from above. This will be your research paper topic and first draft of your literature review that you will use in the Unit VII Research Paper.

A literature review should include sources appropriate to the topic, which are current (within the last 5 years) and/or relevant. Thorough comparison and contrast of findings should be provided and related to the main discussion points. Explain why the source was selected, how it relates to the topic, and controversies that exist in the literature, which should be clearly introduced and discussed. The significance of the discussion for the research question must be clear.

Your literature review should be a minimum of four pages in length, not counting the title and reference pages. Adhere to APA style when constructing this assignment, including in-text citations and references for all sources that are used.