Casper scenario · Written scenario · Equity, Ethics
Paying to skip the surgery wait
You are on the town council that runs a small public hospital.
Waits for knee and hip surgery at the hospital are now over a year. A private clinic offers to use the hospital's operating rooms on weekends for patients who pay about $20,000 themselves, and to give part of its fees to the hospital. Supporters say it would shorten everyone's wait by taking paying patients off the list. Critics say it would let money buy faster care and could draw surgeons and nurses away from public patients.
The two questions
- 1What would you recommend, and why?
- 2Is it fair for people who can afford it to get health care faster? Explain your reasoning.
A sample answer, and how to improve it
A typical first attempt at question 1 scores 5.5 on the 1–9 scale raters use. Confetto's Casper coach rewrites it line by line to 7.5, with the reason for each change.
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