History of U.S. Healthcare Policy and Regulation
This act was put in place by the federal government in response to the public outrage caused by Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This type of advocacy attempts to solve one person's, one family's, or one community's problem at a time.
What is "Case Advocacy"?
This prepaid hospital care plan was created at Baylor University Hospital and the model eventually evolved into Blue Cross (and later, Blue Shield)
What is the "Dallas Plan of 1929"?
This is the percentage of your share of the cost of healthcare services and does not come into play until AFTER you hit your deductible
What is "Co-Insurance"?
This regulating body oversees drugs, medical devices, and foods, but not most wellness products.
What is the Food and Drugs Administration?
What is Hill-Burton Act?
If a local community does not have access to potable
water or if domestic violence is not being taken seriously by the local police, launching a publicity and activism campaign to draw attention to these problems and create change as a result is known as this type of advocacy.
What is "Issue Advocacy"
When insurance companies predict they will make a profit by taking in more money than they will have to pay out, it is called this.
What is "risk pooling"?
What is "Explanation of Benefits"
This law prevented hospitals from denying or limiting treatment to individuals.
What is "Anti-Dumping Law"?
This act addressed several key problems in the U.S. including lack of consistent standards, costs of unsafe work environments, high rates of workplace injuries/deaths and low oversight at workplaces.
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Act?
These are clear plans about how a social, political, or economic vision will be achieved and how ideas will be implemented as actions.
What is "policy"
Under the Affordable Care Act, the premium cannot exceed this amount of family income.
What is "9.5%"?
This is when you are able to select/change a health care plan. (4 answers)
What is: 1) when you start a new job; 2) open enrollment; 3) qualifying event; and 4) Turning 65/eligible for medicare
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), this is the full spectrum of factors that influence health.
What are "Determinants of Health"
This act was signed into law by President Bill Clinton and established civil and criminal penalties for HIPAA violations.
What is the "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?"
This type of advocacy is solution-based.
What is Germany?
This health service plan comes at a higher cost but offers more freedom for users and no referrals are needed to see a specialist.
What is a Preferred Provider Organization (PPO)?
Supplements are covered under this act
What is the "Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994"?
Due to no funding mechanism, this act puts a significant financial strain on hospitals which sometimes leads to forced hospital closures.
What is the "Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act"?
Where does the word "Advocacy" and the word "advocate" come from?
What is ancient Roman law?
Supplements are covered under this act.
What is the "Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994"?
What is a "Flexible Spending Account"?
This is the calculation used under Hatch-Waxman Act to calculate the restoration time covered for brand name drugs
What is (50% of testing period) + (100% of review period)?