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Does ACA work?
Do we like the ACA?
Costs of ACA
Other impacts
Miscellaneous ACA
100
Number of people that gained health insurance in the first year of the ACA.
What is 10-12 million
100
The percentage of the population that does not favor the ACA.
What is 47%
100
Number of Americans who in 2016 could be denied financial assistance to help pay insurance premiums for plans purchased in the ACA's federally operated insurance exchanges.
What is 209,148
100
Parts of the country where the law is increasing availability of residency programs, training and recruitment of providers.
What are rural areas
100
____ out of every ____ American adults has a pre-existing condition.
What is 1 out of every 2.
200
Hospitals are reporting minimal to no change in the number of uninsured patients they are seeing since the launch of ACA (true or false).
What is false.
200
The number of individuals who favor the ACA has changed significantly over time (true or false).
What is False
200
A provision of the law that limits the profits of health insurance companies.
What is Minimum Loss Ratio (MLR)
200
The number of times the House of Representatives has voted to repeal the law?
What is 56
200
_______, ________ and _______ are responsible for the majority of deaths and health care costs in the United States.
What is cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes.
300
The number of facts that support ACA will be better in 2015.
What is none.
300
One of the reasons the ACA is no well liked is because healthcare.gov failed miserably the first year (true or false).
What is true
300
Due to the ACA, this is one of the main reasons hospitals are seeing an increase in profit.
What is more patients having insurance.
300
If the law is overturned, ____ million people would lose their health insurance.
What is 8.2
300
Approximately ______% of all healthcare spending in the US is wasted.
What is 30.
400
According to the New York Times, the ACA has improved health outcomes for this population.
What is the young.
400
One Wall Street Journal editorial writer compared the ACA to this.
What is the crisis in Ukraine.
400
The estimated cost if the law is overturned.
What is unknown.
400
The GOP's plan to repeal and replace ACA includes what primary changes/provisions (name 1)
What is: 1. No more individual mandate 2. Pre-existing condition change 3. Cap on tax preference for employer health plans 4. Less generous subsidies.
400
The Internet calls for the voice of ______ ______experts to be heard, so that we do not allow misinformed activists or commercial interests to dictate debates such as the efficacy of ACA on health, the "association" of childhood vaccinations and autism, etc., all of which can contribute to the loss of the public's health.
What is public health.
500
The healthcare industry been (choose one): Hurt by the law Helped by the law
What is mostly helped.
500
According to a Gallup poll, in the long-run, Americans think the healthcare law will: 1) make things better 2) not make much difference 3) make things worse
What is make things worse.
500
ACA requires health insurers in the individual and small group market to spend _____% of their premiums on medical costs.
What 85%
500
The estimated length of time needed to determine the impact of ACA.
What is several years.
500
True or False: As with other public health-related research, the ACA related information and evidence-based data can be deliberately manipulated for commercial gains, and medical journals are not exempt from responsibility in these cases.
What is True.