HW 26 - Looking Back & Forward In Unit

4-5 important ideas, insights, or items of information that I have learned in this unit so far (and the source):
1) Everything that we eat is made out of corn(Omnivores dilemma young readers addition)
2) What really happens to the animals in Processed farms is nightmarish and corrupt(Class movie & Omnivores dilemma young readers addition)
3) Death doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing and death is only as bad as you make it(Tuesdays With Morrie)
4) Other countries such as France and Britian have way better health care than the U.S(Class Movie)
5) The big insurance companies only want to help themselves and only help the people when it's also benefiting them(class movie)
        The book, "Tuesdays With Morrie" has been most helpful for me in coming to a deeper understanding of our culture's dominant social practices around illness and dying because it showed me that everyone feels pity for the ill person. It also showed me that due to pity you feel it necessary to give the ill person anything he wants and make his last days pleasant. Beth's speech made me come to a deeper understanding of our culture's dominant social practices around illness and dying. It made me come to a deeper understanding because it made me realize that the hospitals really do care about money over peoples health.
Questions I think is most important to explore in the final two weeks:
 1) Are there people high in power trying to help us and not trying to only get money? And if so who are they?
2) Why aren't we given as much medical attention when we aren't close to dying?
3) Are doctors forced to decline patients due to there superiors?
We could best explore this topic by looking at some more videos or other texts answering to the questions above
addressing question 1:  There appears to be no just people high in power trying to help us. The only time they "help us" is when they are secretly getting big money from the governmet. To make matters worse doctors also have the power to decline there patients of medical help. The reason this is not just is because the doctos do this just so they could make more money because some of these treatments coast the hospitals millions of dollars. However the worse thing of all is this corrupt system doesn't seem like it's going to get better anytime soon.
Addressing question 2: Maybe we aren't given given as much medical attention when we arent close to dying because the doctors dont think we need it. I also think we aren't given as much medical attention because doctors dont want to waste there time and possibly spend the companies money. For example doctors are always acting like they are very busy and always have stuff to do but when my mom makes an appointment and i go see a doctor they always seem so relaxed and as if they weren't doing anything. Also the doctors always want to take the least amount of time they could with there patients and move on to the next as if they dont really care. This is yet another reason why i think this system is so corrupt.