HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Socialized Medicine, Student Debt, Commodification

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 1AA3
• Professor: Geraldine Voros

Document Summary

Tony benz states that if people have the opportunity to work, to feel confident, to be healthy, it will significantly be better. When we have a commodification, you may be told you have to go to another hospital or put on the street. Need to be a lawyer to understand it. Can alter the way in which we apply medical care in a society. Medical profession judges who gets to be looked at, who can be treated, etc. Refer to group discussion in lecture who you would choose first for operation based off the money you have to spend: who was left last, the farmer.