The amount you pay out-of-pocket before your insurance plan kicks in.
What is a deductible?
100
What does PPACA stand for?
What is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act?
100
The healthcare system of the US ranked by the WHO as this number in the world.
37th wuuttt
200
The amount you pay (rate) to receive active insurance coverage.
What is a premium?
200
A set of state-regulated and standardized health care plans in the United States, from which individuals may purchase health insurance eligible for federal subsidies.
What is a health insurance exchange?
200
The US ranked what number worldwide in terms of healthcare spending?
Numero Uno
300
A system of insurance that provides coverage to high-risk individuals with serious pre-existing conditions who would otherwise not receive healthcare insurance.
What is a high-risk pool?
300
The age that coverage has been extended to for dependent adult children?
26
300
The US is ranked what number in terms of quality of care, without taking spending into consideration?
15th
400
An Alameda health care program in place since July 2011. It provides comprehensive health care services through a contracted network of health care providers.
What is HealthPAC?
400
This will happen to choose not to get insurance (through public programs, employers, or private)...
They will be charged a penalty as part of the individual mandate, which requires that all citizens have health insurance.
400
The number of uninsured Americans (approximately)?
50 million
500
A type of managed care plan that requires you to receive most or all of your health care from a network provider (which contracts a number of service providers). Requires that you select a primary care physician (PCP) who is responsible for managing and coordinating all of your health care.
What is an HMO?
500
This will happen to insurance companies that waste too much money on administrative costs (at least 80% of spending must go towards healthcare provision)...
They will be forced to give money back to customers as rebates.
500
The number of people who die each year due to lack of healthcare access in the US?