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Health Disparities
History
Health care for some of the poor
Medicare
Right to die
or
Right to life?
100
A basic human need
What is healthcare?
100
At the turn of the twentieth century, Progressive-era reform groups first proposed a______________________.
What is a National Health Insurance plan?
100
____________, the program for poor Americans, was established under Title XIX of the Social Security Act.
What is Medicaid?
100
___________, established under Title XVIII of the Social Security Act, is a social insurance program operated by the federal government that covers virtually all people aged 65 years and older.
What is Medicare?
100
____________ is the primary source of government funding for long-term care.
What is Medicaid?
200
No one should suffer or die for lack of financial resources to obtain______________________________.
What is the lack of medical attention?
200
Opposition from the American Medical Association forced _________________________ to drop the idea of including health insurance in the original Social Security legislation for fear that it would endanger passage of the entire bill.
What is President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
200
Since Medicare is a social insurance program and not a public assistance program, participation is not contingent on __________.
What is income?
200
__________________ can help to clarify an individual's wishes when death is imminent.
What is Living or penultimate wills?
300
The poor and the aged.
Who requires more medical attention than the general population?
300
________ pushed hard for national health insurance, but it was again branded as socialized medicine by the medical community and defeated.
What is President Harry S. Truman?
300
The costs of Medicaid now exceed the cots of any other 'welfare' program, including _______________, _______, and _______________.
What is SSI, TANF, and Food Stamp programs?
300
__________ pays for hospital care, skilled nursing care following a hospital stay, some home health care, and hospice care, and is financed by a portion of the Social Security payroll tax.
What is Part A?
300
Advance directive called ____________________ can also clarify one's wishes and transfer legal powers to another to make medical decisions.
What is Durable Power of Attorney?
400
A ounce of prevention.
What is worth a pound of cure?
400
Every year from 1935 until 1965, major health insurance bills failed in Congress, in large part because of__________.
What is American Medical Association (AMA) opposition?
400
In 2002, ________percent of the U.S population was enrolled in Medicaid.
What is 11.6?
400
___________, supplemental medical insurance, is a voluntary component that covers physician services, outpatient hospital services, certain home health care services and durable medical equipment.
What is part B?
400
The Florida case of ___________________, contended that her husband thought she was in a persistent vegetative state and should be allowed to die. Where her parents disagreed, calling it a court sanctioned murder. her parents believe that their daughter was not in a persistent vegetative state, that she was responsive and might be helped with therapy that her husband refused to provide. She did not have a written directive, but her husband said she did not want to be kept alive by artificial means.
What is the Terri Schindler-Schiavo care?
500
Goals of the federal government's healthy People 2010 initiative.
What is (1) "increase quality and years of healthy life" (2) "eliminate health disparties among different segments of the population?
500
In _________, the federal government did authorize states to use federal and state public assistance funds for medical care for people who were poor and aged, blind, or disabled and poor families with dependent children.
What is 1950?
500
About ________________ of enrollees were children and their parents who are not disabled.
What is three-quarters?
500
The costs of prescription drugs are an increasing concern. One study found that about 20% of seniors failed to fill a prescription or skipped doses to make medications last longer . Since May 2004, a prescription drug benefit, called ___________, has been available to Medicare participants.
What is Part D?
500
_________________ devoted himself to a cause by assisting in suicides of ill individuals .
What is retired pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian.