1. How do you think financial ratios differ across different industries? Compare two industries of your choice and select a few ratios and explain whether you think the ratios would be higher or
lower for each of those industries and explain why.

2. What are some uses and limitations of financial ratios?

Question 2-

Check out Hospital Compare … https://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/about/what-is-HOS.html

Be sure to read ABOUT THE DATA sections.

Professionals who work in hospitals: health information management + clinical professionals + administration all collect data (primary) and report that data to CMS.

Then, other professionals can use these results, shown on this website, for benchmarking, while patients can use it to determine which provider to use.

In your own words, explain how you might perform Primary Research to collect data…in your future job position.

In your own words, explain how you might use Secondary Research in your future job position to benchmark some of these outcomes.

Question 3-

Describe and discuss the public funding for mental health services including the impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Describe and discuss the private funding for mental health services including the impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

What is a family to do?

Question 4-

Am I selfish?

Can a selfish person be a moral person? A self-interested person? What is the difference, if there is any, between being selfish and being self-interested? Between acting prudently and acting
morally?

Question 5-

Describe the three key assets that, according to Marx, enable the capitalist class to maintain its power.
Critically compare the functional theory of inequality with the conflict theory of inequality.