7/1 Health Care Law

Health Care Overhaul Is Still Not Hit For Public
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/us/politics/health-care-overhaul-is-still-no-hit-with-public.html?pagewanted=all

二代健保明年元旦上路
 http://mag.udn.com/mag/life/storypage.jsp?f_ART_ID=381704

 As there is a new act for the second generation of health care under discussion in Taiwan, in the USA, President Obama and his team are devoting themselves in health care overhaul. You may hear that it's expensive to see a doctor in the USA, it's hard to imagine when we live in Taiwan having the privilege of low medicare cost. And there are some concepts in the health care which worth thinking twice. Let's see the discussion question below:

 1. How do you think about the medical environment in Taiwan?

 2. What do you feel about owning the health care in Taiwan? Address the like and dislike, or tell your experience regarding go to the doctor with or without the health care.

 3. Some people think that Health Care Act can't be paralleled with Act for promoting economy, what's your opinion?

 4. Except for the health care by government, everyone will buy insurance for himself or herself, how many percentage do you invest in insurance?

 5. How do you see the difference between of health care in Taiwan and the USA? Please feel free to bring up more questions. Thank you.

6/10 Discussion cancelled

Dear all,

I got a sun stroke this Saturday and still have terrible headache right now. I am afraid that I have to cancel tonight's discussion. Sorry for all inconvenience.

TINA

6/10 Men who do women's work

In Chinese society, men are considered to opt for jobs such as construction work, knowledge-intensive work (doctors, professors, CEO). On the other hand, women are considered to be the right persons to take care of children (child babysitter), students (teachers), and patients (nurses). However, nowadays, this situation is undergoing a change. In job markets, there are more and more men looking for jobs that are traditionally preferred by women and on the other hand women choosing men's jobs. In today's discussion, we are going to discuss this change. It is great if you can read all three articles listed below. If you are short of time, please read one of the following article. 


http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/05/men-who-do-womens-work
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/business/increasingly-men-seek-success-in-jobs-dominated-by-women.html
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/pink-collar-jobs-that-attract-the-most-men/


Questions:

1. Do your parents have same expectations to your brothers and sisters? (Any differences in their expectations influenced by gender?)

2. What did your parents and friends in your generation think of gender differences? Did they choose their interests or jobs depending on their gender?

3. What do you think of male nurses, female construction workers, male nursery teachers, etc? Do you think male nurses can do well like female nurses, etc?

4. In job markets, men sometimes get more salary and get promoted easily than their female counterparts. In your opinions, is it possible to reach gender equity when more men do women's work and more women do more men's work?

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