Lecture
What is the definition of provision?
set of services/procedures/interventions intended to create, maintain or restore bodily health.
What is the difference between Medicare and Medicaid?
Medicare takes care after those who are 65 and over and Medicaid takes care of poor women, children, blind, and the disabled (all under 65)
What are consequences of this privatization of service providers?
Higher prices
Under whose administration was the Affordable Care Act implemented?
Obama
True or false. Public health insurance in the U.S. covers a little bit over 27% of its citizen?
True
What is the definition of financing
how healthcare is paid for.
How is Medicare and Medicaid funded through?
What are the three types of actors that regulate the relationships between providers, payers, and patients?
State, corporate, and private agencies
Indirect benefits in the U.S. flow disproportionately to which socioeconomic classes?
Middle and high class
What was Clinton failed health policy plan called?
Health Security Act
What is the definition of arranging?
who decides what care you get and how it will be covered financially.
Name three differences in the healthcare spendings that leads to U.S. to spend on health care more.
administrative expenses, more intensive care, doctors are paid more.
Which kind of health system fits the following description; hospitals are publicly owned, doctors' income being derived from salary and not by fees, and the system is tax funded?
What do most American politicians assume the only alternative for their shortcomings of U.S. social spending?
European "socialism"
True or False. Americans are generally supportive of covering the uninsured?
True
Restrict the number of spaces in medical schools and residency programs.
What kind of system do the Health Maintenance Organization (HMOs) adopted?
Salary system
Which supranational political and economic union allowed for pharmaceutical firms to operate across borders?
The EU
Which kind of high-tech treatment does the U.S. rank in for availability per capita?
MRI and CT scanners
Who was the a figure during this shift, the head of SEIU, and aligned with CEO of War-Mart to take action on health care in the future?
Andrew Stern
List 2 services that the health care system do?
1. Risk pooling
2. Produce health care
3. Finance health care
4. Purchase medical treatments
5. Provide timely access to health care.
6. Regulate the actors to preserve the integrity of the health care market.
What are the three elements of access rules?
set of services insurance covers, financial payments after care, and preauthorization requirements and limits on services that can be accessed.
What are the four explanations for increased spending on health care?
1. medical services are personal services.
2. technological progress
3. Success of health care itself creates demand
4. increase number of patients
What does the U.S. rank first in the OECD measure of net social expenditure, "tax breaks for social purposes"?
First
What is the main distinction for the Health Care for America plan?
There is a unified national framework that provides choices between public plans or private HMO style plans.