Government Initiatives and Programs
Meant to provide healthcare for people over 65
What is Medicare?
This medicine is a treatment for diabetes
What is insulin?
Tool developed to measure blood pressure; steeped in controversy
What is a sphygmomanometer?
This country was the first to really invest in laboratory medicine
Where is Germany?
Discovered x-rays in 1895
Who is Wilhelm Roentgen?
The most controversial aspect of the Affordable Care Act
What is the individual mandate?
This disease was not initially taken as seriously as other diseases because it was considered a moral failure on your part if you got it
What is HIV?
This president proposed socialized medicine after WW2
Who is Harry Truman?
Period of time characterized by therapeutic optimism about the progress and success of healthcare advancements
What is the golden age of medicine?
William Morton had the first practical use of this very important development
What is anesthesia?
Needs based welfare system for the poor, disabled, etc.
What is Medicaid?
This epidemic set in motion a huge increase in government involvement with medical care
What is cholera?
This is the type of insurance that reimburses the policy holder for part of their medical expenses
What are indemnity benefits?
This was considered a magic bullet to take care of syphilis without harming the human host
What is arsphenamine/salvarsan?
Realized that disease was similar to fermentation in alcohol; developed anthrax and rabies vaccines
Who is Pasteur?
Many cities banned this in the 10s and 20s to limit spread of tuberculosis
What is tobacco spitting?
This was a key difference between cholera and previous epidemic diseases
Quarantine failed to contain it
Before insurance, this was the common system for paying health care providers
What is fee for service?
A form of society management through science that promotes discriminatory attitudes for the “progress” of society
What is eugenics?
Forcibly tested for a disease, found to be an asymptomatic carrier, was later permanently incarcerated for returning work with the disease
Who is Typhoid Mary?
These four colleges were the first members of the Association of American Medical Colleges
What are Johns Hopkins, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Univ. of Michigan, and Harvard?
This epidemic was blamed partly on flies due to prejudice about poverty and wealth
What is polio?
These managed care programs implemented cost-saving strategies in healthcare, but also introduced gatekeepers and less facetime with physicians
What are HMOs/PPOs?
Germ theory and sanitarians both blamed this as the root of disease
What is poverty?
Isolated and identified the pathogens responsible for tuberculosis and cholera
Who is Robert Koch?