Deck 32: Lillian B Rubin, the Untold Health Care Story: How They Crippled Medicare

Question 1

Ronald Reagan was the first person to enroll in the Medicare program.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Which of the following conservative groups formed a coalition with the insurance and pharmaceutical industries to denounce national health insurance as "socialistic"?

A) Social Security Administration
B) American Medical Association
C) Medical Group Management Association
D) Health Maintenance Organizations

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Title XVIII of the Social Security Act was signed into law during with President's administration?

A) Harry Truman
B) John Kennedy
C) Lyndon Johnson
D) Ronald Reagan

Answer 3

C

Question 4

According to Rubin, why are hundreds of physicians planning to limit the number of Medicare patients they see or refuse to accept them altogether?

Question 5

A recent survey of over 2,000 physicians found that nearly 60 percent support legislation to establish national health insurance.

Question 6

Which of the following programs was established with passage of Title XVIII of the Social Security Act?

A) Medicare
B) Medicaid
C) Social Security
D) a and b above

Question 7

was the first U.S. President to ask Congress to enact a national health insurance program.

A) Barack Obama
B) Lyndon Johnson
C) John Kennedy
D) Harry Truman

Question 8

Rubin found that doctors in San Francisco were not taking Medicare patients, but this was not occurring elsewhere.

Question 9

The Bush administration's proposed cuts to Medicare target which of the following groups?

A) doctors
B) hospitals
C) private insurance companies
D) a and b above

Question 10

Medicare is the first-and still only-government sponsored, single-payer medical system in the U. S.

Question 11

Why is Rubin concerned about the disassembly of Medicare? What can be done to address this problem, according to Rubin?

Question 12

So-called "operation coffee cup" enlisted actor Ronald Reagan to denounce health care for America's aged as "socialism".