HEALTH INSURANCE AGAIN
This is the type of managed care plan that always requires you to have a PCP.
HMO
Under this model of healthcare, both insurance and the healthcare system itself are publicly funded, like in the United Kingdom.
Beveridge Model
From whom, what country, and what general time period does the Hippocratic Oath come from?
Hippocrates, Ancient Greece
In what decade was the American Medical Association founded: 1790s, 1840s, 1900s, 1940s
1840s
These are the three elements of the Iron Triangle
cost, quality, access
This is the type of managed care plan that has a network restricted to a small set of specific providers unless you are in a truly emergent situation.
EPO
Under this model of healthcare, both insurance and healthcare systems are privately funded, like our private/employer-based health insurance in the US.
Bismark.
Which civilization was responsible for the first known cataract surgery?
Ancient Rome
This person is known as the "Father of Epidemiology" for his work discovering the source of cholera in London to be the Broad Street Pump.
John Snow
When costs go down, access goes ____ and quality goes ______
access goes up and quality goes down
This insurance is available to individuals over the age of 65.
Medicare
In Canada, insurance is _________ funded, and the healthcare system itself is ________ funded.
publicly; privately
When Western medicine stagnated during the Dark Ages, this civilization continued to make great strides in physical and mental healthcare.
Islamic
This report, published in 1910, is well-known as leading to greater uniformity of standards in medical education, but also had serious consequences when it came to discriminating against women and minorities.
Flexner Report
Which party, the employer or the employee, pays a greater share of an employee's health insurance premiums in the US?
the employer
This type of government health insurance is paid for in part by both the federal government and the state, and the state has control over what kinds of benefits, etc., are offered under the plan.
Medicaid
This model of healthcare has insurance publicly funded, and the healthcare system privately funded, similar to Medicare or Medicaid.
National Health Insurance Model
In what city was the first hospital in Colonial America, and what famous founding father helped establish it?
Philadelphia/Benjamin Franklin
This is the reason that health insurance suddenly became a benefit that employers offered employees in the 1940s:
the government banned the raising of wages above a certain amount to prevent even further lack of employees during WW2
Which of the three has risen the fastest in the last decade: overall inflation in the US economy, workers' earnings, or family health insurance premiums?
premiums
This part of Medicare is completely free, and pays for inpatient hospital stays.
Part A
In a fully out-of-pocket health insurance model, insurance is __________________, and the healthcare system is ________________.
nonexistent; private
This physician tried to convince others that proper handwashing between patients giving birth could lead to reduced mortality, but no one believed him.
Ignaz Semmelweis
This physician discovered the cure for Polio, and gave it away for free for the good of the world.
Jonas Salk
This country spends the most on healthcare per capita of all countries in the OECD.
US