Health & Cost
Coverage & Care
Role of Government
Policymaking
Issues Ahead
100
The average American lives up to?
77
100
When a policy holder pays an annual premium and then is entitled to have the insurance company pay a certain amount of the healthcare for the year they are paying for a...
health insurance policy
100
Insurance program to finance all Americans that have medical care
National Health Insurance
100
They all lobby to Medicare to get what they want
hospital, doctors, & elderly
100
What new advances in high-tech medicine?
Stem cell research
200
Why are health expenditures so high?
New Technologies, Drugs (Medicine), Organ Transplants, Kidney Dialysis, Other treatments not available outside the U.S., Economics of health care does not keep costs under control, Social Security, Medicare, & Medicaid.
200
It is the best predictor of being uninsured
age
200
Program added to Social Security systems that provides health insurance for the elderly
Medicare
200
Are now one of the most powerful voting & lobbying forces
the elderly
200
Who is an advocate for stem cell research?
Nancy Reagan
300
What are one of the largest single components of American economy?
health expenditures
300
Provides for all/most of a person's health care for a yearly fee
Health Maintenance Organization
300
Designed to provide health care for the poor that serves about 42.7 million people.
Medicaid
300
What were the insurance company's famous attack ads?
"Harry & Louise" Ads
300
What is a pro of stem call research?
can prevent, cure, or keep at bay harmful diseases
400
Because immigrants can't afford health insurance they….
Search for cheaper foreign care
400
Receive private insurance plans through
Your job
400
The U.S. has the most (blank) in the world
private medical system
400
His plan called for coverage for all people and employers to provide the coverage
Bill Clinton
400
What does it mean when employers & insurance companies think that some people are too much of a risk?
Genetic Discrimination
500
These health expenditures use about 4.5% of the GDP
Medicare & Medicaid
500
How many people are without health insurance?
46 million
500
How many people does Medicare cover?
40 million
500
Plan that had a market strategy and had more individual health savings accounts
George W. Bush
500
What does it mean when physicians choose to limit their resources to a patient
Medical Rationing
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