Healthcare Systems
Often described as confusing, complex, and massive.
What is the U.S. Health System
The three branches of the U.S. Government.
What are the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial?
Conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, and worship and their age affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.
What are the Social Determinants of Health
The possibility of financial loss from an unlikely event.
What is risk?
The component of Medicare that mainly covers hospital and skilled nursing care.
What is Medicare Part A
The ability to obtain appropriate care when they need it.
What is healthcare access?
Political efforts that create systemic changes to how health care is financed and delivered.
What is healthcare reform?
Two of the characteristics of the uninsured.
Income level, Race, ethnicity, immigrant status, employment status, Age, education level, geography
A means-tested health insurance entitlement program funded through a state/federal partnership.
What is Medicaid?
The component of Medicare covering physician and outpatient services.
What is Part B.
A quality of high-functioning systems that have achieved health coverage for all citizens.
Universal Access to Care
The two types of spending that are contained in the federal budget.
discretionary and mandatory
The performance metrics designed to help state and local governments promote optimal health for society as a whole.
What are the National Public Health Performance Standards, 10 Essential Services of Public Health?
The political and economic system that relies on market forces for the production and distribution of goods and services.
What is capitalism?
The component of Medicare allowing beneficiaries to buy subsidized plans from private companies at a higher cost than traditional Medicare.
What is Medicare Part C or Medicare Advantage
The top performing healthcare systems are found in which countries according to Mirror, Mirror 2021.
What are Norway, the Netherlands, and Australia?
A measure that allows the federal government to continue to spend money without passing a budget.
What is a continuing resolution?
The methods and tools utilized by those in power to shape society and distribute resources and opportunities.
What are the structural drivers of health?
A system of health care delivery that seeks to achieve efficiencies through integrating services, controlling utilization, and determining provider payment rates.
What is a Managed Care Organization?
Titles 18, 19, and 21 of the Social Security Act contain the legal basis for what government-sponsored health insurance programs?
Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP
The sector of the U.S. health system accounting for the largest portion of spending.
The main tool used to organize ourselves into an advanced, democratic society.
What is law?
The actual conditions and circumstances that result from the structural drivers of health; another way to describe the conditions in which people are born, live, work, learn, and age.
Social Drivers of Health
The term that describes how responsive the amount of supply or demand is when there is a change in price or disposable income.
Elasticity
The portion of costs that a consumer must pay before insurance coverage kicks in.
What is a deductible?