Acts
By the Numbers
Webster
100

Which act implemented comprehensive reforms designed to improve the accessibility, affordability, and quality of health care 

What is the Affordable Care Act?

100

According to the article, "Obama, B, United States Health Care Reform" how much has the uninsured persons rate declined since the ACA became law?

What is 43%?

100

What term is used to describe deaths that could be avoided through public health interventions 

What is preventable death?

200

Which act restricts use of pre-existing conditions in health insurance coverage determinations, sets standards for medical records privacy, and establishes tax-favored treatment of long-term care insurance? 

What is HIPPA

200

In what year was Medicare Medicaid created?

What is 1965

200

What is ther term used to describe make changes in something, typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice in order to improve it?

What is reform?

300

Formerly known as the Social Security Act Amendments, which act established Medicare, a health insurance program for the elderly, and Medicaid, a health insurance program for the poor. 

What is Medicare Bill

300

Approximately what percentage of traditional Medicare payments are now flowing through alternative payment models like bundled payments or accountable care organizations

What is 30%?

300

What is the term used to describe a political and philosophical concept which holds that all people should have equal access to wealth, health, wellbeing, justice and opportunity 

What is social justice?

400

Which act which included temporary support to sustain Medicaid coverage as well as investments in health information technology, prevention, and health research?

What is the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act?

400

The Department of Health and Human Services estimated that __ million more people had health insurance in early 2016 because of the law

What is 20 million?

400

What is the term describing the point where their prescription drug expenses exceed the initial coverage limit of their Part D coverage but have not yet reached the “catastrophic” level of coverage. 

*Hint: It is also referred to as the 'donut hole'

What is coverage gap?

500

Which act encompassed the objectives relief, recovery, and reform

What is the New Deal Act?

500

The law’s provision allowing young adults to stay on a parent’s plan until age 26 years has also played a contributing role, covering an estimated 2.3 million people after it took effect in late ___

What is 2010

500

What is the term for systems in Medicare that tie fee-for-service payments to the quality and efficiency of the care delivered by health care organizations and health care professionals?

What is value-based payment