Health Care Reform
Major changes through government policy to expand health insurance to the uninsured.
What is health care reform?
Training with a practicing physician was only needed to become a physician.
What is an apprenticeship?
Provide preventative services and treat frequently occurring and less severe problems.
What is a Primary Care Physician?
The concerted activities of physicians through the AMA have been referred to as this, to distinguish the from the uncoordinated actions of individual physicians in the market place.
What is organized medicine?
Came to forefront in the 1990's with technological advances in the distant transmission of image date.
What is telemedicine?
California Medical Association started this plan, which was designed to pay physicians' fees.
What is Blue Shield?
What is a physician?
Main caregivers for sick and injured patients and address physical, mental and emotional needs.
What is a nurse?
System originally designed to make cash payments to workers for wages lost due to job-related injury, disease or death.
What is worker's compensation?
Refers to various forms of cross-border economic activities.
What is globalization?
Expanded coverage and increased access to care; expanded Medicaid coverage in participating states to all non-elderly adults with incomes less than 138% of Federal Poverty Level.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
Further reformed medicine by opening its own medical school in 1893.
What is Johns Hopkins University?
Type of care that emphasizes the musculosketel system.
Term synonymous with any large scale government sponsored expansion of health insurance.
Primary source for health insurance and delivery of medical services to the majority of Americans.
What are managed care organizations (MCOs)?
U.S. Supreme Court's 1999 decision which directed states to provide community based services where appropriate to people with mental illness.
What is Olmstead v. L.C.?
Place where the destitute and disruptive elements of society where confined.
What is an almshouse (poor house)?
Dispenses medicines prescribed by physicians, dentists and podiatrist; and to provide consultation on the proper selection and use of medicines.
What is a pharmacists?
-AMA opposed
-decentralized American system
-labor and political instability in the U.S.
What are 3 reasons why national/universal health insurance has failed?
Health care information and services offered over the Internet by professionals and non professionals alike.
What is E-health?
Law signed and passed into law in December 2017, which repealed the mandate in ACA that required all Americans to have health insurance.
What is the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017?
Played a critical role in galvanizing the medical profession and protecting physicians' interest.
What is the American Medical Association?
Care that views medical treatment as an active intervention to produce a counter acting reaction in attempt to neutralize the effects of disease.
What is allopathic medicine?
Covered anyone age 65 or older; covered people with a certain eligibility. i.e income.
Provide a full array of health care services, including hospital inpatient care and multi specialty out-patient services, home health care and long term health care.
What are integrated delivery systems (IDSs)?