Assume you are a nursing director for a nursing home. You’ve been working at your facility for a few short months when you learn the company that owns the home has been improperly overbilling Medicare for the care and services provided to your residents. You bring this to the attention of the company’s managers, but they do nothing. You then notify the appropriate authorities (becoming a whistle-blower) and, dismayed by the fraud and other problems, you quit.

(a) Overcharging Medicare for care and services provided to patients is an example of behavior

a) rational
b) unbiased
c) unethical
d) illegal

(b) In an ethical dilemma such as the one presented above:

a) there are two choices, neither of which resolves the situation in an ethically acceptable manner.
b) there are two choices, either of which resolves the situation in an ethically acceptable manner.
c) there are two choices, one of which resolves the situation in an ethically acceptable manner.
d) there is only one choice.
e) there are no choices.