Humanities Assignment for Mon 5/1
Research question update - I realize just asking about how people thought about the basic healthcare package may be slightly broad for my handle so I have slightly narrowed my topic to a single aspect of healthcare. My first choice was cancer care mostly due to my participation in the oncology department in the VA Hospital. Upon further research, I decided that studying how people thought about capping insurance (300,00 f.) based on genetic test results was a good idea. A quick explanation is that patients can choose to get genetically tested for a plethora of cancers that may be prevalent in their families. However, the results may a barrier from getting insurance. This topic is also relavant to us since this topic is such a big issue also in the US.
This assignment was hard for me because the methods are so different than the scientific methods I was taught. Thus, after much pondering, I was able to come up with a multifaceted question that will encompass both the verifiable and non-verifiable story.
[Question] It is worth getting genetically tested?
[Verifiable] If you look at the word, "worth" in the monetary sense, there is a slew of data that one can get about the costs on numerous expenses: medication, hospital service, possible psychiatric help, preventative measures, etc. If the sum of these aspects are over the capping amount, it might not be worth knwoing if you have a genetic predisposition unless you are willing to personally pay for the consequences.
[Non-verifiable] There are many more aspects to this question that just how much it costs.
This assignment was hard for me because the methods are so different than the scientific methods I was taught. Thus, after much pondering, I was able to come up with a multifaceted question that will encompass both the verifiable and non-verifiable story.
[Question] It is worth getting genetically tested?
[Verifiable] If you look at the word, "worth" in the monetary sense, there is a slew of data that one can get about the costs on numerous expenses: medication, hospital service, possible psychiatric help, preventative measures, etc. If the sum of these aspects are over the capping amount, it might not be worth knwoing if you have a genetic predisposition unless you are willing to personally pay for the consequences.
[Non-verifiable] There are many more aspects to this question that just how much it costs.
- What kind of cancer is being tested?
- How much psychological trauma will be inflicted?
- (Underlying question) How much better is it to know?
Different people will have different reasons and priorities for wanting to know and these factors cannot be sytematically analyzed as the previous monetary example.
Hopefully, my sources for the verifiable story will allow me to also delve into further explanations about the non-verifiable narratives.
posted by Belinda Luk @ 11:00 PM
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