Breaking the Bank
Who Pays?
Alphabet Soup
Miscellaneous
100
Percent of U.S. GDP spent on health care.
What is 18%?
100
These entities provide health insurance for over half of Americans.
What are employers?
100
This government entity is responsible for protecting and promoting public health through the regulation and supervision of food safety, tobacco products, dietary supplements, prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceutical drugs (medications), vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, blood transfusions, medical devices, electromagnetic radiation emitting devices (ERED), and veterinary products.
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
100
Percent of Americans who are uninsured.
What is 16%?
200
A family of four with insurance pays this much out-of-pocket for health care each year.
What is $8,000?
200
This government program provides health insurance for families and individuals with low income and resources
What is Medicaid?
200
This government entity is responsible for conducting, funding, and overseeing biomedical and health-related research
What is the National Institutes of Health?
200
This percent of care in the United States is estimated to be completely unnecessary.
What is 30%?
300
Percent of U.S. GDP projected to be spent on health care in 2040.
What is 34%?
300
This government program guarantees access to health insurance for Americans aged 65 and older.
What is Medicare?
300
This government entity is responsible for overseeing Medicare and Medicaid.
What is the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)?
300
This number of Americans are projected to receive health care coverage as a result of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
What is 32 million?
400
These types of diseases are responsible for 75% of spending on health care in the US.
What are chronic diseases?
400
The government provides insurance for this percent of Americans.
What is 28%?
400
This government entity is responsible for protecting public health and safety through the control and prevention of disease, injury, and disability.
What is the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)?
400
Most doctors are reimbursed through this system, which provides them with a payment for each procedure or test they perform.
What is fee-for-service?
500
This is the amount of money a family of four would have to make each year to be eligible for Medicaid.
What is $31,000?
500
This is the monthly fee you pay to a health plan for insurance coverage.
What is a premium?
500
This government department is responsible for providing health care coverage to people who have served in the military.
What is the Veterans Health Administration?
500
This part of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) requires almost all Americans who do not already have health care coverage to purchase it.
What is the individual mandate?
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