Deck 6: Individual Rights in Health Care Public Health

Question 1

Which piece of legislation is often described as one of the foundations of health rights?

A) Examination and Treatment for Emergency Medical Conditions and Women in Labor Act
B) Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
C) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
D) Social Security Act

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which piece of legislation reformed the public health insurance market primarily through an expansion of Medicaid eligibility to cover all non-elderly, low-income persons who are legal residents or citizens?

A) Examination and Treatment for Emergency Medical Conditions and Women in Labor Act
B) Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
C) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
D) Social Security Act

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which state enacted a law, 20 years after Roe v. Wade, that imposed a series of requirements on women seeking abortion services and began another battle in the Supreme Court over abortion and the right to privacy?

A) New York
B) Pennsylvania
C) Virginia
D) Massachusetts

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which Title of the 1964 Civil Rights Act is the key law used to combat race and ethnicity discrimination in health care?

A) Title IV
B) Title V
C) Title VI
D) Title VII

Question 5

Nations that provide universal healthcare entitlements have incurred bankruptcy due to the increasing cost of healthcare.

Question 6

Including language respecting health rights in a legal document, even one as profound as a national constitution, does not guarantee that the right will be recognized or enforced.

Question 7

The Nuremberg Code spells out principles of research ethics, including the need to secure in advance the voluntary consent of the research subject.

Question 8

Under __________ constitutional law, citizens are guaranteed "the right to health protection" and access to publicly financed healthcare services.

Question 9

In 2003, the __________ released a report that included overwhelming evidence of racial and ethnic health disparities and documented that these disparities could not be explained by the relative amount of health care needed by populations of color and non-minority populations alone.

Question 10

The __________ is notable mostly because the law defines "places of public accommodation" to include private hospitals and other private healthcare providers.

Question 11

Which piece of legislation was enacted in 1986 to prevent the practice of patient dumping?

A) Examination and Treatment for Emergency Medical Conditions and Women in Labor Act
B) Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
C) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
D) Social Security Act

Question 12

The right to privacy achieved prominence beginning with the Supreme Court's landmark 1965 decision in:

A) Canterbury v. Spence.
B) Griswold v. Connecticut.
C) Roe v. Wade.
D) Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey.

Question 13

The Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act (PBABA) represented how many attempts by Congress since 1996 to ban partial birth abortions?

A) Two
B) Three
C) Four
D) Five

Question 14

Which piece of legislation provided federal support to states to build and refurbish hospitals after World War II but explicitly sanctioned the construction of segregated facilities?

A) Nuremberg Code
B) Hill-Burton Act
C) Affordable Care Act
D) Civil Rights Act

Question 15

The United States is one of the only high-income nations that does guarantee healthcare as a basic right.

Question 16

The Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act establishes civil penalties for any physician who knowingly performs a partial birth abortion and thereby kills a fetus.

Question 17

The Americans with Disabilities Act has dramatically changed the landscapes of disability law without any limitations.

Question 18

Medicaid is unlike most other laws related to health financing in that it confers the right to individually enforce program obligations.

Question 19

EMTALA includes two related duties, which technically are part of only hospitals that do not participate in the Medicare program.

Question 20

Modern notions of informed consent originated from the Nuremberg Code.