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A program in which eligibility depends on income.
What is a means-tested program?
What is Healthcare Delivery in Preindustrial America?
The largest employer in the nation, employing about 11.9% of the nation’s total labor force.
What is the U.S healthcare industry?
A system originally designed to make cash payments to workers for wages lost because of job-related injuries and disease.
What is workers compensation?
The most sweeping reform undertaken since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965.
What is the Affordable Care Act of 2010?
State government built institutions for patients with untreatable, chronic medical illness.
What is an asylum?
Creation of Medicare and Medicaid, growth of private health insurance, reform of mental healthcare.
What are developments of the postindustrial era?
Their main role is to diagnose and treat problems related to the teeth, gums, and tissues of the mouth.
What are dentists?
The AMA opposed national health care initiatives.
What is the reason of national healthcare failure?
To expand the ability of small businesses and the self-employed to band together and enroll in AHPs that do not have to comply with the ACA’s regulatory mandates.
What is the goal of the trump-era rules?
A medical philosophy based on the holistic approach to treatment that also emphasizes correction of the position of the joints or tissues and diet and environment as factors that might destroy natural resistance.
What is Osteopathic Medicine?
Hospital inpatient care, surgical services in both inpatient and outpatient settings, primary care and multi-specialty outpatient services, home health care, long-term care, and specialized rehabilitation services.
They specialize in drug therapy and work closely with physicians
What are Pharmacotherapists?
Health insurance became an important component of collective bargaining between unions and employers.
What is employment-based health insurance?
The Obama-era Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) had mandated that employers that offered health insurance to their employees must provide contraceptives to women, including those that could cause early abortions
What is regulations to implement the ACA?
A philosophy of medicine that views medical treatment as active intervention to counteract the effects of disease through medical and surgical procedures that produce effects opposite those of the disease.
What is Allopathic Medicine?
These services include medical information from reliable sources such as the prestigious National Institutes of Health and the world-renowned Mayo Clinic through their websites, online purchase of health care products, online consultations with physicians, and online interactions with other consumers about health-related matters.
What are services provided by telemedicine?
Largest group of healthcare professionals.
What are nurses?
Covers all elderly persons, nonelderly disabled persons on Social Security, and nonelderly persons with end-stage renal disease
What is Medicare?
The number of uninsured was markedly reduced under, particularly among low-income people who became newly eligible for Medicaid.
What is an advantage of ACA?
An unspecialized institution existing during the 18th and mid-19th centuries that mainly served general welfare functions, essentially providing shelter to the homeless, the insane, the elderly, orphans, and the sick who had no family to care for them.
What is an Almshouse?
Physicians’ incomes grew dramatically. Laws were passed that prohibited individuals from obtaining certain classes of drugs without a physician’s prescription. Health insurance paid for treatments only when they were rendered or prescribed by physicians.
What are efforts of AMA?
They focus on the whole community, rather than on the individual, and work to address issues such as access to health care, infectious disease control, environmental health issues, and violence and injury issues.
What are Public Health professionals?
Financed by the states, with matching funds from the federal government according to each state’s per capita income
What is Medicaid?
The mandate to have health insurance or pay a penalty tax was repealed.
What is the Tax Cuts Jobs Act of 2017?