Good People, Bad System
True or false: The US healthcare system is for-profit.
True
True or false: The American healthcare system has been doing a better job at helping service members return to a normal life.
True
What is a kind of procedure that alleviates symptoms but does not address root problems or decrease risk for health events such as heart attacks?
heart stent
What is the safety net of healthcare?
Emergency Department
How much money did pharmaceutical/insurance companies spend on healthcare lobbying?
$1.1 billion
What are the two countries in the world that allow pharmaceutical companies to advertise pharmaceuticals?
The United States and New Zealand.
Are veterans at a higher or lower risk of developing narcotic dependencies?
higher
How are the majority of physicians paid?
fee-for-service
Why do patients with no health insurance seek care through the ER?
Medicine and keeping up with a healthy diet are too expensive.
Do patients have a bill of rights?
Yes! This was apart of the Healthcare reform act.
What is a key problem of the medical education mentioned in the film that doctors in the US receive?
Medical education does not address subject areas that are essential to understanding health and patients (such as nutrition and non medical determinants of health).
Soldiers use of narcotics as _____ (doubled/tripled/quadrupled) in the past year.
tripled
What percent of healthcare spending is wasted?
30%
Why is it hard for people to be able to make better, more affordable health decisions?
Department of Agriculture subsidizes the wrong foods.
The leading cause of death in diabetes is _______.
heart disease
The US spends more money on healthcare than any other country and has ____ outcomes
worse/poorer
What is an alternative to narcotics that is currently being explored to treat military personnel?
Acupuncture
How many people die from harmful care in the hospital annually?
187,000
How much money is set aside annually to treat obesity?
$1 trillion
What happened in the clinical trials done with Avandia?
The group taking the diabetes drug had an increased risk of heart disease …. the leading cause of death in diabetes is heart disease.
Describe stakeholder mobilization.
Organized political oppositions by groups with vested interest in the outcome. Has resulted in absence of any true reform in the healthcare system.
Do providers ensure that veterans are not prescribed addictive medications?
No
How does fee-for-service physician payment result in overutilization?
Fee-for service incentivizes quantity over quality. Physicians are rewarded for doing more.
What are some health complications that obesity can lead to?
heart disease, strokes, overall poor health
Finish the quote: “When medicine became a business we lost our"
Moral compass