prism 3 unit 3 reading 2

What is the title of Reading 2?

• Healthcare Today

• Free of Public Health Care

• A Mixed System

• Should Health Care Be Free?

Does burden have a postive or negative meaning?

• positive

• negative

Look at the vocabulary on page 58. Use the correct word in bold to complete the sentence.

Anyone can be a doctor __________ gender.

Look at the vocabulary on page 58. Use the correct word in bold to complete the sentence.

This is an expensive construction project. We have to carefully budget for material and _____ costs.

What is the main idea of paragraph 1?

(page 60)

• There are different kinds of healthcare and ways to pay for them

• Healthcare in the US is provided by employers

• You can only see a doctor if you pay

• Patients must choose between high-quality but expensive healthcare or medium-quality and cheap healthcare

What is a disadvantage of public healthcare?

(page 60)

• Every citizen gets access to healthcare

• The services are operated by the government

• Life expectancy increases in a public healthcare system

• Public healthcare is expensive for the government to run

What is a disadvantage of private healthcare?

(page 60)

• Commercial companies can offer higher quality healthcare

• The government struggles to cover public healthcare programmes

• Many people cannot afford to pay for private health insurance

• Governments offer a safety net to its citizens

Look at the vocabulary on page 58. Use the correct word in bold to complete the sentence.

We are doing a group project for our final grade. My ____________ is to research the costs of private health care.

What kind of healthcare system does Japan have, according to the writer of Reading 2?

Read the descriptions on pages 60 - 61.

• Public

• Private

• Mixed

• Healthcare?

There are two commentators on page 61. Which one prefers a private health care system?

• John K

• Becky

• Neither

• Both