Modes of Payment
This requires U.S. citizens to have health coverage with exemptions available for issues such as financial hardships.
What is an "individual mandate"?
States voluntarily participate in this program by enrolling their citizens into health care if they are below 138% of the FPL.
What is Medicaid expansion?
This is the most dominant health care delivery system in the US today.
What is Managed Care?
This is also known as a quasi-market.
What is an imperfect market?
During this period, medical students were required 3-4 months of courses during a one-year period for two consecutive years.
What is the preindustrial period?
This payment keeps health insurance active for the beneficiary.
What is a premium?
This act provides continued health coverage for 18-36 months for people that leave employment.
What is COBRA?
This is a network of health care providers and organizations that provide a continuum of services.
What is an integrated delivery system (IDS)?
This type of justice emphasizes the well-being of the community over the individual.
What is social justice?
The destitute and disruptive were confined here.
What is an almshouse (poorhouse)
This mode of health care was spurred on by wage and price controls and it prevented companies from granting wage increases during WWII.
What is employment-based private insurance?
This racial and ethnic group had the highest rates of uninsurance prior to the Affordable Care Act.
Who are Hispanics?
This type of health care delivery consists of medical and nonmedical care for chronic health problems and disabilities.
What is long-term care delivery?
In this type of justice, medical care and its benefits are distributed on the basis of people's willingness and ability to pay.
What is market justice?
This led to the concentration of medical practices in towns and cities.
What is urbanization?
This national health insurance program covers inpatient hospital stays for individuals 65 and older.
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What is Medicare Part A?
This is measured by the number of times health care services are used.
What is access to care?
This health care system's mission is to improve and protect community health through prevention.
What is public health?
This act requires screening of every patient that enters the ER regardless of income.
What is the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act of 1986 (EMTALA)?
This university transformed medical training by requiring residency as part of medical education.
What is Johns Hopkins University?
This type of rating is when people who become ill receive benefits greater than the premiums they pay.
What is community rating?
This is the portion the beneficiary pays for health services such as doctor visits and prescriptions.
What is a copayment?
These are designed to deliver health care to the uninsured, Medicaid recipients, and other vulnerable populations through community centers, migrant health centers, free clinics, and ERs.
What are safety nets?
Most health care providers engage in prescribing additional diagnostic tests, scheduling checkup appointments, and maintaining abundant documentation on cases as a form of protection.
What is defensive medicine?
This was the first broad-coverage health insurance in the U.S.
What is workers' compensation?