US System
Often described as confusing, complex, and massive.
What is the US healthcare delivery system?
A state of physical, mental, and social well-being.
What is Health (WHO, 1948)
The national insurance program that is financed through the Department of Defense.
What is TriCare?
The era and phenomena that describe how US health care has become the domain of large organizations.
What is corporatization?
The component of Medicare that mainly covers hospital and limited SNF care.
What is Part A?
The ability to obtain appropriate care when they need it.
What is access?
An ethical principle where health care is distributed through the forces of supply and demand.
What is market justice?
The possibility of a financial loss from an unlikely event.
Risk
Political efforts that create systemic changes to how health care is financed and delivered.
What is health care reform?
The component of Medicare that covers physician, and outpatient services.
What is Part B?
Group of providers & hospitals that work together to deliver efficient, high-quality, coordinated care.
What is an Accountable Care Organization?
Systems that have achieved health insurance coverage for all citizens.
What is Universal Coverage?
A means-tested health insurance entitlement program funded through a state/federal partnership.
What is Medicaid?
Era of health care that saw reforms in medical education, urbanization, and new scientific discoveries.
What is the post-industrial era?
The component of Medicare allowing beneficiaries to buy subsidized plans from private companies at a higher cost than traditional Medicare.
What is Part C or Medicare Advantage?
What is an Integrated Delivery System?
A long-lasting medical condition that can be controlled but not cured.
What is a chronic condition?
A federal program of health insurance for the elderly, disabled people, and those with ESRD.
What is Medicare?
The nurse who left medical school to found the Henry Street Settlement and provide integrated, home-based care to poor families in New York.
Lillian Wald
The component of Medicare covering prescription drugs that was added in 2003 and expanded under the Affordable Care Act.
Part D
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?
An ethical principle in which resources, including health care, is distributed equally among all people in a society.
What is social justice?
Political and economic system that relies on market forces for the production and distribution of goods and services.
What is capitalism?
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
The portion of costs that a consumer must pay before insurance payments begin.
What is a deductable?