US System
Health and Ethics
Financing
History
Coverage
100

Often described as confusing, complex, and massive.

What is the US healthcare delivery system?

100

A state of physical, mental, and social well-being.

What is Health (WHO, 1948)

100

The national insurance program that is financed through the Department of Defense.

What is TriCare?

100

The era and phenomena that describe how US health care has become the domain of large organizations.

What is corporatization?

100

The component of Medicare that mainly covers hospital and limited SNF care.

What is Part A?

200

The ability to obtain appropriate care when they need it.

What is access?

200

An ethical principle where health care is distributed through the forces of supply and demand.

What is market justice?

200

The possibility of a financial loss from an unlikely event.

Risk

200

Political efforts that create systemic changes to how health care is financed and delivered.

What is health care reform?

200

The component of Medicare that covers physician, and outpatient services.

What is Part B?

300

Group of providers & hospitals that work together to deliver efficient, high-quality, coordinated care.

What is an Accountable Care Organization?

300

Systems that have achieved health insurance coverage for all citizens.

What is Universal Coverage?

300

A means-tested health insurance entitlement program funded through a state/federal partnership.

What is Medicaid?

300

Era of health care that saw reforms in medical education, urbanization, and new scientific discoveries.

What is the post-industrial era?

300

The component of Medicare allowing beneficiaries to buy subsidized plans from private companies at a higher cost than traditional Medicare.

What is Part C or Medicare Advantage?

400
An extensive network of organizations (clinics, hospitals, physicians, and insurers) owned by one entity to save cost. CommonSpirit is one example.

What is an Integrated Delivery System?

400

A long-lasting medical condition that can be controlled but not cured.

What is a chronic condition?

400

A federal program of health insurance for the elderly, disabled people, and those with ESRD.

What is Medicare?

400

The nurse who left medical school to found the Henry Street Settlement and provide integrated, home-based care to poor families in New York.

Lillian Wald

400

The component of Medicare covering prescription drugs that was added in 2003 and expanded under the Affordable Care Act.

Part D

500

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?

500

An ethical principle in which resources, including health care, is distributed equally among all people in a society.

What is social justice?


500

Political and economic system that relies on market forces for the production and distribution of goods and services.

What is capitalism?

500

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

500

The portion of costs that a consumer must pay before insurance payments begin.

What is a deductable?