Health Insurance
A way to reduce those costs to an affordable amount by sharing the risk with others
What is health insurance?
The term for present-day Egypt and Iraq
What is Mesopotamia?
The federal health insurance program for people 65 or older
What is Medicare?
These were performed to rid the body of supernatural spirits
What are exorcisms?
The heating of milk
What is pasteurization?
Usually pays only for care within the network
What is HMO?
An individual who enters altered states of consciousness in order to acquire knowledge and power and to help patients.
What is a shaman?
The percentage of healthcare expense the insurance company and the patient will share after the patient has paid the deductible
What is co-insurance?
A surgical intervention in which a hole is drilled, incised, or scraped into the skull using simple surgical tools
What is trephination?
A sterile condition, free from all germs
What is asepsis?
A core package of items and services
What are essential health benefits?
Practice in China that supports the holistic view of treating the mind, body, and spirit, and the individual's experience of the disease.
What is TCM - Traditional Chinese Medicine?
The comprehensive healthcare reform law enacted in March 2010
What is the Affordable Cara Act?
Made from the opium poppy. It is an addictive narcotic used as an analgesic and sedative to relieve severe pain
What is morphine?
Discovered tiny microorganisms were everywhere
Who is Louis Pasteur?
The Medicare Part that covers inpatient stays
What is Medicare Part A?
Traditional Indian medicine system based on the concepts of longevity and the nourishment of life.
What is Ayurveda?
The father of medicine
Who is Hippocrates?
Time period of primitive beginnings.
What is 4000-3000 BCE?
Discovered many disease-causing organisms and is considered the father of microbiology
Who is Robert Koch?
The first goal of Obamacare.
What is to make affordable health insurance available to more people?
Arabic medicine that was practiced within the context of Islam's system of ethnics.
What is known as Prophetic Medicine?
The practice of pretending to cure diseases
What is quackery?
Found in the dried powdered leaf of the foxglove plant. It is still used today to strengthen and slow the heartbeat
What is digitalis?
He was the first doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery
Who is Joseph Lister?