Deck 9: Health

Question 1

Many countries around the world have adopted ___________ where everyone is covered.

A)Blue Cross
B)HMO system
C)the ACA
D)a single payer system

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The ACA has clearly failed to reduce cost or increase health care access.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The two major problems with the U.S.health system:

A)the number of uninsured and the extreme expense.
B)lack of hospital beds and under-insured
C)under-insured and lack of skilled nurses.
D)None of the above

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Hospital care accounts for ____________ of our national health expenses.

A)almost one-third
B)nearly one-half.
C)just under seventy percent
D)almost two-thirds

Question 5

Describe some of the detailed reasons that account excessively high prices for hospital related care and services? How do these cost represent another virtual insurance program? How would universal health coverage change this practice if the provided reasons are factual?

Question 6

Some of the major provisions of the ACA are modeled after a program introduced in Massachusetts by:

A)Mitt Romney.
B)Ronald Reagan
C)Bill Clinton
D)George W.Bush

Question 7

The United States clearly has the best health care in the world.

Question 8

A RAND Corporation study estimated that states likely to refuse Medicaid expansion would lose ______ in federal transfer payments.

A)4.5 billion
B)6.6 billion
C)8.4 billion
D)290 million

Question 9

Describe the two big problems with the U.S.health care system.How are these problems interrelated? Detail some of the specific measures offered by Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act designed to address each aspect of the health problem.

Question 10

In to help fund the ACA individuals with wages or $200,000 will pay an additional ____ payroll tax.

A))9%
B)1)5%
C)5)5% d.3.8%

Question 11

A common justification for excessive hospital prices is:

A)they cover the cost of running the hospital.
B)they cover the cost of the poor.
C)they pay some research expenses.
D)All the above.

Question 12

_____________ is the belief that the poor and unsuccessful were simply lazier,less intelligent,and/or less virtuous than those successful in life

A)Reaganism
B)social survival theory
C)welfare resentment theory
D)Social Darwinism

Question 13

An increase in insured Americans will likely result in a shortage of physicians and other health care providers.

Question 14

American social values are at the heart of the health care debate.Is adequate health care a basic human right? Does the government have an obligation to ensure basic health care for all citizens? Should health care be treated as another good or service? Why or why not?

Question 15

The ACA includes and expansion of Medicaid to cover:

A)everyone with income of 133% of the poverty guideline.
B)everyone with income of 185% of the poverty guideline.
C)everyone working 30 hours or more a week.
D)anyone with dependent children.

Question 16

The annual per person cost of health care in the United Sates is _________.

A)$5,553
B)$8,000
C)$3198
D)None of the above

Question 17

As a comprehensive attempt to increase accessibility and reduce cost,the _________ is the most important piece of health care policy since the 1965 Medicare Act.

A)Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
B)Health Care Affordability Act
C)Medicare Expansion Act
D)Insurance Responsibility Act

Question 18

What percent of national health care cost are attributed to prescription drugs?

A)35%
B)25%
C)15%
D)45%

Question 19

An estimated 30% of what is spent on medical tests and procedures:

A)could be saved with wellness treatments.
B)is unlikely to benefit the patients who receive it.
C)cause undue pain for clients.
D)All the above.

Question 20

The ACA is an example of a single-payer or universal health care program.

Question 21

Briefly describe the major tenants of Social Darwinism.How does this belief about people shape aspects of our health care policy today? Should successful people feel no guilt about the less successful? Does poverty and lack of health care indicate a personal fault? What social structural factors does this theory seem to ignore?