Healthcare Systems
Health Policy & Policy Making
Health in a Policy Context
Health Economics
Public & Private Insurance
100

Often described as confusing, complex, and massive. 

What is the U.S. Health System

100

The three branches of the U.S. Government.

What are the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial?

100

Conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, and worship and their age affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.

What are the Social Determinants of Health

100

The possibility of financial loss from an unlikely event.

What is risk?

100

The component of Medicare that mainly covers hospital and skilled nursing care.

What is Medicare Part A

200

The ability to obtain appropriate care when they need it.

What is healthcare access?

200

Political efforts that create systemic changes to how health care is financed and delivered.

What is healthcare reform?

200

Two of the characteristics of the uninsured.

Income level, Race, ethnicity, immigrant status, employment status, Age, education level, geography

200

A means-tested health insurance entitlement program funded through a state/federal partnership.

What is Medicaid?

200

The component of Medicare covering physician and outpatient services.

What is Part B.

300

A quality of high-functioning systems that have achieved health coverage for all citizens.

Universal Access to Care

300

The two types of spending that are contained in the federal budget.

discretionary and mandatory

300

The performance metrics designed to help state and local governments promote optimal health for society as a whole.

What are the National Public Health Performance Standards, 10 Essential Services of Public Health?

300

The political and economic system that relies on market forces for the production and distribution of goods and services.

What is capitalism?

300

The component of Medicare allowing beneficiaries to buy subsidized plans from private companies at a higher cost than traditional Medicare.

What is Medicare Part C or Medicare Advantage

400

The top performing healthcare systems are found in which countries according to Mirror, Mirror 2021. 

What are Norway, the Netherlands, and Australia?

400

A measure that allows the federal government to continue to spend money without passing a budget.

What is a continuing resolution?

400

The methods and tools utilized by those in power to shape society and distribute resources and opportunities.

What are the structural drivers of health?

400

A system of health care delivery that seeks to achieve efficiencies through integrating services, controlling utilization, and determining provider payment rates.

What is a Managed Care Organization?

400

Titles 18, 19, and 21 of the Social Security Act contain the legal basis for what government-sponsored health insurance programs?

Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP

500

The sector of the U.S. health system accounting for the largest portion of spending.

What is hospital care?
500

The main tool used to organize ourselves into an advanced, democratic society.

What is law?

500

The actual conditions and circumstances that result from the structural drivers of health; another way to describe the conditions in which people are born, live, work, learn, and age.

Social Drivers of Health

500

The term that describes how responsive the amount of supply or demand is when there is a change in price or disposable income.

Elasticity

500

The portion of costs that a consumer must pay before insurance coverage kicks in.

What is a deductible?

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