Insurance
This is an employee benefit plan established or maintained by an employer or by an employee organization (such as a union)
What is employer based insurance?
This is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production
This was the most common *actual* cause of death in the US in 2000
What is tobacco?
This is a fixed amount you pay for a covered health care service, usually at the time you receive the service
What is a co-pay?
This is a public health insurance program for people with low income, including children, some adults, pregnant women, and people with disabilities.
What is Medicaid?
This is the idea that we have access and receive the level of healthcare that we have earned through our hard work
What is meritocracy?
This country has worse health outcomes compared to 15 other "developed"/wealthy countries
What is the US?
This is the difference between the cost of the labor + cost of product and what the capitalist makes after accounting for that
What is profit?
These agencies are exempt from providing insurance that covers all types of contraception
What are non profit houses of worship?
The idea that if health is important to us, we will make independent lifestyle choices
What is individualism?
This term refers to geographic areas where residents’ access to affordable, healthy food options (especially fresh fruits and vegetables) is restricted or nonexistent due to the absence of grocery stores within convenient traveling distance
What is a food desert?
These hospitals are usually religious
What are non-profit hospitals?
This type of insurance plays a key role in providing health and financial security to 60 million older people and younger people with disabilities
What is medicare?
This is the idea that technology will solve our problems with better biomedicine (surgery, medicines)
What is technocracy?
This status is no longer considered a pre-existing condition by health plans
What is pregnancy?
This is a network of individuals, companies, institutions, government structure to provide care to individuals to prevent and treat disease and promote public health
What is a healthcare system?
This agency is responsible for providing direct medical and public health services to members of federally recognized Native American Tribes including American Indian and Alaska Native people
What is the Indian Health Service?
This refers to the intersection of legal, economic and political aspects of our culture
What is the political economy?
Most insurance must cover all forms of this healthcare tool
What is contraception?
This is the amount you pay for your health insurance every month
What is a premium?