Deck 11: Health Care Reform

Question 1

Which of the following laws were designed to increase access to the healthcare system?

A) HIPPA
B) The Balanced Budget Act of 1997
C) CHIP
D) All of the above

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The United States spends more on healthcare than any other country, whether measured in dollars or percentage of GDP. Using percentage of GDP, which country spends the second most on healthcare?

A) Switzerland
B) France
C) Germany
D) Australia

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Controlling costs requires that we do which of the following?

A) Limit payments to providers.
B) Ask consumers to pay more of their medical bills.
C) Change the incentives in the system.
D) All of the above.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

According to the 2017 Commonwealth Fund report, of the eleven countries studied, where does the U.S. place in terms of overall quality of the healthcare system?

A) First
B) Fourth
C) Eighth
D) Eleventh

Question 5

Whether a woman should be able to get an abortion invokes the values of

A) order and equality.
B) order and freedom.
C) freedom and equality.
D) order and equality.

Question 6

The individual mandate, the requirement that everyone have health insurance, invokes the values of

A) order and equality.
B) freedom and equality.
C) order and freedom
D) order and equality.

Question 7

Public support, measured by public opinion polls, for the Affordable Act have _____ since 2016.

A) increased
B) decreased
C) gone up and down
D) went down after Democrats regained control of the Senate

Question 8

In 2016, President Obama pointed to two problems with the Affordable Care Act. Which of the following are one of those two problems?

A) There were still millions of people uninsured.
B) The individual mandate had been repealed.
C) States had added work requirements to Medicaid expansion.
D) b & c

Question 9

Which of the following did President Obama suggest to improve the Affordable Care Act?

A) All states should expand Medicaid.
B) Adding a public option to the insurance exchanges.
C) Expand tax subsidies for those purchasing insurance on the exchanges.
D) All of the above.

Question 10

Jost and Pollack (2015) include in their article on strengthening the Affordable Care Act, a proposal that conservatives might support. What is that proposal?

A) Increasing the use of IRAs.
B) Changing the incentives facing providers and consumers.
C) Using HSAs to help pay for insurance.
D) Increasing the tax subsidies for those purchasing insurance on the exchange.

Question 11

Liberal/Democratic reform proposals are fundamentally based on the value of

A) order.
B) freedom.
C) equality.
D) all of the above.

Question 12

The "Medicaid for All"-type proposals would be based on

A) allowing people to buy in to Medicaid.
B) instituting work requirements for all Medicaid recipients.
C) eliminating private health insurance companies.
D) all of the above.

Question 13

One problem that critics of "Medicaid for All"-type proposals point to is

A) the high reimbursement rates for providers under the program.
B) that providers can refuse to accept Medicaid patients.
C) that private health insurance companies will be eliminated.

Question 14

Jacob Hacker's 2007 plan, "Health Care for America," would

A) allow employers to stop providing health insurance for their employees.
B) require that everyone have health insurance.
C) have Medicare be the sole health insurance plan.
D) allow those under 65 who do not have health insurance to buy into Medicare.

Question 15

The Medicare "buy-in" plans would focus on

A) those who are greater risk of needing health care.
B) everyone.
C) only those on Medicaid.
D) children.

Question 16

"Medicare for All" is most closely associated with

A) Donald Trump.
B) Barack Obama.
C) Kamala Harris.
D) Bernie Sanders.

Question 17

One key point about the liberal/Democratic plans is

A) that they are likely to increase federal government spending on health care.
B) the incentives put in place are likely to control costs.
C) more people will have health insurance coverage.
D) a & c

Question 18

An analysis of "Medicare for All" suggests that federal healthcare expenditures would rise dramatically if the plan were enacted, but

A) providers would have higher reimbursements than under current arrangements.
B) national healthcare expenditures would be less than projected spending under the current system.
C) taxes would go down.
D) all of the above.

Question 19

The Center for American Progress (CAP) plan, "Medicare Extra for All," would

A) would eliminate cost-sharing on the part of patients.
B) eliminate Medicaid.
C) lower payments to Medicare Advantage plans.
D) continue the practice of not allowing Medicare to negotiate prices with drug companies.

Question 20

The basic idea(s) behind the liberal/Democratic reform proposals are

A) cover more people.
B) administrative simplicity.
C) higher taxes.
D) all of the above.

Question 21

Conservative/Republican reform proposals are fundamentally based on the value of

A) order.
B) freedom.
C) equality.
D) all of the above.

Question 22

Unlike liberals, conservatives believe

A) that there is a right to health care.
B) that there is no right to health care.
C) that taxes should be higher to pay for health care.
D) patients should pay less for their health care.

Question 23

Conservatives tend to believe that

A) health care is a good rather than a right.
B) health care reform should depend on market mechanisms.
C) that incentives can be constructed to control health care costs.
D) All of the above.

Question 24

According to conservatives/Republicans, the Affordable Care Act has been

A) a great success.
B) a good basis for building on conservative reform proposals.
C) a monumental failure.
D) a program that showed the success of market reforms.

Question 25

Paul Ryan's plan, part of the "A Better Way" set of proposals offered in 2016, would

A) be more consumer-directed.
B) make coverage more portable.
C) allow the purchase of health insurance policies across state lines.
D) all of the above.

Question 26

Conservative/Republican healthcare reform proposals would rely heavily on

A) tort reform.
B) choice.
C) competition.
D) b & c

Question 27

Conservative/Republican healthcare reform proposals would make greater use of

A) high-deductible plans.
B) employer-sponsored insurance.
C) a public option.
D) Medicare.

Question 28

John Goodman's plan would

A) eliminate employer-sponsored insurance.
B) give everyone a universal health tax refund.
C) be a defined-benefits plan.
D) increase government's role.

Question 29

Silver's and Hyman's plan is based on

A) people purchasing catastrophic health insurance.
B) people directly paying for most health care.
C) support for those unable to afford healthcare.
D) all of the above.

Question 30

The experience with the Affordable Care Act demonstrates that

A) people do not like high cost-sharing.
B) exchanges are good ways to control healthcare costs.
C) liberals and conservatives agree on the role of government in health care.
D) all of the above.