1. Should employers penalize employees for smoking and weight conditions that increase the employers' health care costs, or should employers just bear these costs?

2. Given that treating early manifestations of disease are far less expensive than treating the chronic health conditions that result from long-term tobacco smoking and obesity, how can the value of preventive self-care be raised so that employees will set priorities for their own health and see healthy lifestyles as a moral obligation? The question is asking for your administrative creativity in organizational policy-making.

3. Explain how status quos and the obfuscation of wage inequality in the healthcare industry has caused more unions to form.

4. Eliminating contingent workers will cost the healthcare industry billions of dollars, and some of this burden will fall on privately insured patients as well as government insurance programs. Is it more important to have full-time salaried employees earning living wages with health insurance and pension benefits, or it is more important to keep health costs reasonable for patients? Explain your answer