Deck 15: Health and Welfare: State, Heal Thyself

Question 1

By 1979, ______ made up nearly 80 percent of all AFDC recipients.

A) the elderly
B) children
C) single mothers
D) families

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The national health care legislation signed into law by President Obama is modeled on an earlier reform in the state of ______.

A) Massachusetts
B) Washington
C) Colorado
D) New Hampshire

Answer 2

A

Question 3

______ deals with the protection and improvement of citizen health and hygiene by government agencies.

A) Private health
B) Public health
C) Corporate health
D) Citizen health

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The region of the country that has the highest rate of obesity is the ______.

A) Northeast
B) South
C) Midwest
D) Pacific Northwest

Question 5

In the United States, the rate of obesity is doing which of the following?

A) It is on the decline.
B) It is the same as it was twenty years ago.
C) It is on the rise.
D) It is nonexistent.

Question 6

In 2017, drug overdoses in Kentucky rose by ______ percent, compared to the previous year's total.

A) 11.5
B) 20.5
C) 30
D) 40

Question 7

The idea that governments should be responsible for ensuring that citizens have health insurance and unemployment insurance is credited to this German chancellor.

A) Otto von Bismarck
B) Helmut Kohl
C) Angela Merkel
D) Theodor Seuss Geisel

Question 8

HMOs are examples of ______.

A) health care coverage
B) managed care
C) doctor-patient relationships
D) home medical organizations

Question 9

TANF stands for ______.

A) Time-bound Assistance to Needy Families
B) Temporary Assistance to Needy Fathers
C) Temporary Assistance to Needy Families
D) Temporary Adjustments for Needy Families

Question 10

Nursing homes, assisted living, and at-home care are all forms of ______.

A) hospice
B) hospitals
C) long-term care
D) entitlement programs

Question 11

The ______, or threshold of eligibility for social programs, is set by the Census Bureau.

A) poverty line
B) income threshold
C) needs threshold
D) break line

Question 12

Refraining from sexual intercourse is known as ______.

A) discipline
B) abstinence
C) altruism
D) authoritarianism

Question 13

The federal health insurance program for elderly citizens is called which of the following?

A) Social Security
B) Medicare
C) Medicaid
D) S-CHIP

Question 14

The American safety net started after ______.

A) the Great Depression
B) WWI
C) WWII
D) the Cold War

Question 15

Which two programs emerged from the Social Security Act of 1935?

A) unemployment compensation and retirement benefits
B) unemployment compensation and health care insurance
C) retirement benefits and health care insurance
D) welfare and health care insurance

Question 16

The cost for long-term care is increasing because

A) the population is getting poorer
B) the population is getting weaker
C) the population is getting younger
D) the population is getting older

Question 17

The shift from AFDC to TANF resulted in welfare policy being moved to a series of ______ grants.

A) block
B) categorical
C) revenue-sharing
D) discretionary

Question 18

For most of American history, those most in need were cared for by which of the following?

A) international charity organizations
B) federal government programs
C) state government programs
D) local government programs

Question 19

______ is the medical condition of being excessively overweight.

A) High blood pressure
B) Obesity
C) Diabetes
D) Anxiety

Question 20

Most health care occurs at the ______.

A) federal level
B) international level
C) state and local levels
D) federal, state, and local levels

Question 21

Various studies have shown that Medicaid expansion saves states money, because ______.

A) it makes the local government absorb the health care costs for people who were receiving treatment through other programs
B) it makes the local government absorb the health care costs for people who were not receiving treatment through other programs
C) it makes the federal government absorb the health care costs for people who were receiving treatment through other programs
D) it makes the federal government absorb the health care costs for people who were not receiving treatment through other programs

Question 22

When federal CHIP funding expired in September 2017, states made up for the lack of federal money by ______.

A) using reserves and received a long-term injection of funds from Congress
B) using reserves and received a short-term injection of funds from Congress
C) using reserves and received a long-term injection of funds from the Senate
D) using reserves and received a short-term injection of funds from the Senate

Question 23

Which of the following guarantees assistance to those who meet eligibility requirements?

A) assistance programs
B) insurance programs
C) security programs
D) entitlement programs

Question 24

Carfentanil is ______.

A) an elephant tranquilizer
B) a prescription drug
C) an opioid
D) an antidote to heroin overdose

Question 25

Managed care declined in the states because ______.

A) patients complained that they were limited to very few doctors
B) doctors were limited in treatment options that they could provide
C) patients had difficulty obtaining appointments
D) patients had no difficulty obtaining appointments

Question 26

The State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) was instituted under President ______.

A) Roosevelt
B) Bush
C) Clinton
D) Obama

Question 27

Alcohol kills 88,000 Americans each year, ______the number of opioid deaths.

A) more than double
B) less than double
C) more than triple
D) less than triple

Question 28

The United States has ______ public health system.

A) no single
B) a uniform
C) a hierarchical
D) a consistent

Question 29

In a map of where conditions like diabetes, hypertension, obesity are most prevalent, those are the areas that have seen ______.

A) the most urban hospitals open
B) the most urban hospitals close
C) the most rural hospitals open
D) the most rural hospitals close

Question 30

A(n) ______ is the outbreak of a disease that spreads across a large area and affects a large population.

A) epidemic
B) pandemic
C) eruption
D) plague

Question 31

A 2016 study by the Trust for America's Health found that ______.

A) public health spending remained lower than it had been prior to the recession of the early 1980s
B) public health spending remained higher than it had been prior to the recession of the early 1980s
C) public health spending remained lower than it had been prior to the recession of 2007-2009
D) public health spending remained higher than it had been prior to the recession of 2007-2009

Question 32

Rural hospitals that have suffered the most have been those ______.

A) in states that have taken up the Affordable Care Act's offer to expand Medicaid coverage at the federal government's cost
B) in states that have not taken up the Affordable Care Act's offer to expand Medicaid coverage at the federal government's cost
C) in states that have taken up the Affordable Care Act's offer to expand Medicaid coverage at the local government's cost
D) in states that have not taken up the Affordable Care Act's offer to expand Medicaid coverage at the local government's cost

Question 33

Voters in _____ have sought to implement Medicaid expansion through ballot measures.

A) the South and Midwest
B) Idaho and Utah
C) the South
D) the Northeast

Question 34

As part of its 2012 ruling, the Supreme Court placed the decision of whether to expand Medicaid in ______.

A) the individuals' hands
B) the local governments' hands
C) the state governments' hands
D) the federal governments' hands

Question 35

The Supreme Court, in its 2012 decision on the Affordable Care Act, ruled that ______.

A) the federal government could force states to participate in the expansion of Medicare, which the law required them to do or risk their traditional Medicare funding
B) the federal government could not force states to participate in the expansion of Medicaid, which the law required them to do or risk their traditional Medicaid funding
C) the federal government could force states to participate in the expansion of Medicaid, which the law required them to do or risk their traditional Medicaid funding
D) the federal government could not force states to participate in the expansion of Medicare, which the law required them to do or risk their traditional Medicare funding

Question 36

In a 2018 study, the Kaiser Family Foundation found that ______.

A) a slight majority of Americans viewed Obamacare favorably
B) a slight minority of Americans viewed Obamacare favorably
C) a slight majority of Americans viewed Obamacare unfavorably
D) a strong majority of Americans viewed Obamacare favorably

Question 37

Medicare was established by the Social Security Act of 1935.

Question 38

Medicaid is a health insurance program for low-income mothers, children, the elderly, and ______.

A) prisoners
B) government workers
C) college students
D) people with disabilities

Question 39

Although states have to prepare to pay a bigger share of the Medicaid tab, health policy experts say the cost of expansion will ______.

A) be relatively large compared to other Medicaid costs such as prescription drugs
B) be relatively large compared to other Medicare costs such as prescription drugs
C) be relatively small compared to other Medicaid costs such as prescription drugs
D) be relatively small compared to other Medicare costs such as prescription drugs

Question 40

According to the U.S. Surgeon General's office, more than ______ million Americans struggle with opioid abuse or addiction.

A) 0.5
B) 1
C) 1.5
D) 2

Question 41

Children from low-income families lack health insurance because of decreasing state funding.

Question 42

Prescription drug costs will become increasingly important in the future.

Question 43

Under managed care programs, states pay doctors directly for medical services and fees.

Question 44

What has been the effect of the devolution revolution on health care and welfare policy?

Question 45

The Cold War precipitated the creation of the American safety net.

Question 46

What is an HMO?

Question 47

What is the relationship between public health and political culture?

Question 48

S-CHIP increased states' flexibility with regard to administering health care benefits.

Question 49

TANF provides roughly 6.5 million children in low-income families with health insurance.

Question 50

What factors contributed to increasing federal involvement in safety net programs?

Question 51

What factors have contributed to increasing health care expenditures?

Question 52

George Bush was instrumental in creating the Medicare program.

Question 53

How do AFDC and TANF differ?

Question 54

Accountable Care Organizations are partnerships of health care providers that agree to set a budget for serving the care needs of groups of patients.

Question 55

Technology has improved to the point where patients only have to fill out paperwork once for all doctors that they see.