Insurance
Healthcare coverage for people over age 65 and those with disabilities
What is Medicare?
The fraction of the U.S. economy that is spent on healthcare
What is 1/6?
A federal agency with the mission to improve public health
What is the United States Public Health Service?
What is 6500?
This refers to an individual’s ability to effectively communicate, convey, negotiate, or assert his or her own interests, desires, needs, and rights
What is self-advocacy?
A managed care organization that provides prepaid, comprehensive healthcare at a flat rate and for a fixed period of time through a network of participating healthcare professionals and hospitals policyholders select a primary care physician (PCP) and referrals from the PCP must be obtained to see a specialist
What is an HMO (Health Maintenance Organization)
What is living longer and poor diet/lack of exercise?
This agency imposes safety and health legislation to prevent injury, illness, and death in the workplace.
This type of hospital does not pay state or local property taxes or federal income taxes, is considered a charity, and operates in accord with state and federal guidelines for charities.
What is a non-profit hospital?
Another term for hospice care
What is palliative care?
An insurance program for people with low incomes and few personal assets
What is Medicaid?
This is what an insured person pays to the insurance company in order to maintain coverage
What is the premium?
This agency monitors and prevents disease outbreaks, responds to environmental emergencies and other health threats, and provides research-based health information to the public.
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)?
This type of hospital receives significant funding from local, state, and federal governments; has a high concentration of free care.
What is a public/government-owned hospital?
The type of medicine that studies and identifies a person’s DNA sequences.
What is genomic medicine?
Provides wage replacement and medical benefits for employees injured while at work
What is worker's compensation?
This is what happens to insurance premiums as healthcare costs rise
What is "increase"?
A government agency that regulates products in the food and drug industries and develops nutrition facts labels to help consumers make informed food choice
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
This type of hospital is investor-owned or publicly owned by shareholders.
What is a For-profit hospital?
A method for treating mental and emotional disorders based on the practices of Sigmund Freud
What is psychoanalysis?
A health insurance organization that contracts with a network of preferred providers from which the policyholder can choose. Often involves an annual deductible payment for service, but patients do not have a designated primary care physician and may self-refer to specialists
What is a PPO (Preferred Provider Organization)?
The amount of money an insured person must pay annually for covered healthcare services before the health insurance plan begins to pay for those services
What is the deductible?
The world's leading agency in conducting and supporting medical research
What is the National Institutes of Health (NIH)?
This type of facility generally houses elderly or disabled patients who have a medical problem or problems that keep them from being able to take care of themselves.
What is a long-term care facility?
Administering a weakened or dead bacteria or virus to build up a person's immunity to a specific disease
What is vaccination?
The military's health insurance program which covers active-duty members, retirees, and their families
TRICARE
A complex piece of legislation passed in 2010 with the intention of increasing the quality and affordability of health insurance.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
An agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
A type of care that is designed to relieve pain and reduce suffering in terminally ill patients
What is hospice?
Microorganisms that cause disease
What are pathogens?