Health care Reform
Refers to major changes through government policy to expand health insurance to the uninsured.
What is health care reform?
Refers to care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs, and values, in which patient values guide all clinical decisions
Patient-centered care
The second main anchor of the ACA, requiring who to offer health insurance to workers, could not be repealed through the tax law?
What is employers
Indicates a patient’s overall satisfaction with life during and after medical treatment.
The outpatient clinics provide free care to those who could not afford to pay. They provided basic medical care and dispensed drugs to ambulatory patients
What are dispensaries?
An era of health care reform was inaugurated in the United States.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
Population health outcomes are the product of medical care, public health, genetics, behaviors, social factors, and environmental factors.
What are the multiple determinants of health?
The first broad-coverage health insurance in the United States.
What is worker's compensation?
An added worldwide dimension to the delivery of medical care through telemedicine, outsourcing, and foreign direct investment in health care delivery.
What is globalization?
Since the 1990s, this type of care has become the primary source of health insurance and the delivery of medical services to the majority of Americans
What is managed care?
Recent efforts to reform health care were based on government intervention in the delivery of health care.
What is financing?
A model that providers manage and coordinate care and are accountable for disease prevention and wellness.
What is patient-centered care model?
Shortages of physicians and other health care professionals are foreseen in the future, as the number of insured people has risen significantly since what implementation?
What is the Affordable Care Act
Education and counseling is a critical role in informing consumers, especially those with chronic conditions, about prescription drugs and their potential misuse.
What is pharmaceutical care?
Two entities have corporatized the delivery of health care in the United States. While at the same time, they have made the healthcare system extremely complex.
What are MCOs and IDSs?
One major anchor of the ACA—the mandate to have health insurance or pay a penalty tax—was repealed.
What is the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017?
Refers to the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of outcomes within the group
what is population health?
A law signed and passed into law in December 2017, effectively repealed the mandate in the ACA that required all Americans to have health insurance.
What is the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017
Employer-sponsored insurance has increased the demand for dental care by enabling a greater segment of the population to afford it.
What is dental insurance?
An immense purchasing power to obtain health care services at discounted prices and used the strength accorded by their consolidation to implement various types of controls to reduce the rising costs of health care.
What are managed care organizations (MCOs)
The Affordable Care Act’s requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance was interpreted by some to be characterized as a financial burden.
What is a tax?
Corporatization has put health care delivery into the hands of large managed care and health care organizations.
What is integrated?
In 1964, Congress approved a three-part program that provided publicly financed health insurance to all elderly individuals, regardless of their incomes.
What is medicare and Medicaid?
A full array of health care services, including hospital inpatient care, surgical services in both inpatient and outpatient settings, primary care and multispecialty outpatient services, home health care, long-term care, and specialized rehabilitation services
What are integrated delivery systems?
Delivery systems are evolving from patient-centered care to population care.
What is the evolution of health care delivery?