Who finances most long-term care in the United States? Take a poll of your peers prior to researching this question to see what they think is the answer. Are nurses well informed about this economic issue, and does this meet your expectation?
How does QALY analysis benefit the young over the old? What does the RAND Corporation do? Review its online series, “Small Ideas for Saving Big Health Care Dollars”
(http://www.rand.org/pubs /research_reports/RR390.html).
Choose one idea for reducing healthcare spending and discuss three new things you learned, three things that sur- prised you, and how you can use this information in your own practice.
