ethical dilemma

Hi, I am a graduate student and for one of the course assignments, I have to solve or come up with an excellent action plan around this ethical dilemma situatation. I would appreciate any thoughtful response from you:

You work in the emergancy room of a community mental health center in a general hospital. You are about to admit a man best diagonosed as a paranoid schizophrenic; his insurance will cover the coct of his hospitalization. This diagonosis may make it difficult for him to obtain other kinds of insurances( e.g. life insurance)later. You suspect that learning this information (about loosing insurance) will make him resist hospitalization since he cannot efford it without insurance.

1.What ethical dilemma are we dealing with?
2. What course of action would you choose in this situation?

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