Insurance 101
Name That Procedure
Famous Outbreaks
Pop Culture Medicine
The NEWS (Do you read it?)
100
This is the monthly amount you pay to maintain your health insurance, whether or not you use it.
What is a premium?
100
A thin flexible tube is inserted into the colon to screen for polyps.
What is a colonoscopy?
100
This disease swept through Europe in the 1300s and killed one-third of the population,
What is the bubonic plague? (I will also accept black death)
100
The show Private Practice is a sideshow based on which Grey's Anatomy character?
Who is Addison Montgomery?
100
This man is the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Who is RFK Jr.?
200
The common name for the ACA (Affordable Care Act).
What is ObamaCare?
200
A procedure where cerebrospinal fluid is drained from the spine.
What is a lumbar puncture? (I will also accept spinal tap)
200
This disease was brought to "the New World" by the Europeans and wiped out an estimated 90% of the indigenous populations.
What is smallpox?
200
The dinosaurs in Jurassic Park were cloned using this material
What is mosquito DNA?
200
This category of drugs, originally developed to manage diabetes, have been wildly popularized in the last few years, due to its weight loss effects.
What are GLP 1s?
300
You can stay on your parents' insurance until this age.
What is 26?
300
A procedure where the stomach is stapled to make it smaller and then directly connected to the small intestine
What is a gastric bypass?
300
COVID was said to originate from this city in China
What is Wuhan?
300
In The Office, Michael Scott performs CPR to this beat of this song, which happens to be the actual song the AHA recommends for chest compression timing.
What is "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees?
300
Currently, a cruise ship that left Argentina is being rejected from docking in any country due to an on-board outbreak of this virus
What is hantavirus?
400
The period each year (usually in the fall) when you can change your health insurance plan for the next year.
What is open enrollment?
400
A procedure to remove foreskin.
What is a circumcision?
400
Purdue pharma and the Sackler family were blamed for their excessive marketing and lobbying tactics, which lead to soaring rates of addiction to this class of drugs
What are opiates?
400
Walter White's diagnosis with this disease drives the entire plot in Breaking Bad.
What is lung cancer?
400
This athlete made cupping therapy a huge trend in 2014 when he showed up in Rio bearing these marks.
Who is Michael Phelps?
500
The name for the pre-approval required from your insurer before certain procedures and medications are covered.
What is a prior authorization?
500
A procedure where patients own blood is drawn, spun to concentrate growth factors, and then injected back into hair, skin, or injured areas to promote healing.
What are PRP (platelet rich plasma) injections?
500
"A night with Venus and a lifetime with Mercury" is a saying that refers to 16th century sailors fatally treating this disease with mercury.
What is syphilis?
500
M*A*S*H was a medical show that aired in '70s, focusing on a team of doctors during the Korean War. MASH stands for this in the medical context.
What is mobile army surgical hospital?
500
This is the name for the UK's socialized healthcare system.
What is the NHS?