1.Question : Which statement most accurately describes the relationship between health insurance and health?
1- Compared with the insured person, the uninsured tend to be diagnosed at later stages of life-threatening illnesses.
2- Having health insurance has no impact on a person's overall health. Genetics and lifestyle choices are the only factors proven to impact health.
3- In an effort to avoid high-cost hospitalizations, the uninsured are more likely to practice health maintenance behaviors than those with insurance.
4- People who have health insurance display a 25 percent increased risk of dying when compared to the uninsured.
2.Question :
Which of the following are stakeholders in health care policy?
1- Individuals, Businesses, Consumers, and Purchasers
2- Purchasers, Medical Suppliers, Providers, and Businesses
3- Providers, Hospitals, Physicians, and Insurers
3.Question : Proportional payments are ________________.
1- The ratio of payment to income that is the same for all classes.
2- payments that take a falling percentage of income as income increases.
3- payments that take a rising percentage of income as income increases.
4-A set fee regardless of income.
4.Question : Which of the following is an effective cost control mechanism?
1- Raising physician fees
2- Capitation payments
3- Patient cost sharing
4- Risk transfer
5.Question :
How is Health Policy Formed?
1- Through discussion with patients
2- Through the judicial system
3- Through the legislative process
4- Both B and C
6.Question : Which of the following are modes of paying for health care?
1- Capitation, Fee-for-service, and Salary
2- Out-of-pocket payments, individual private insurance, employment-based private insurance, and government financing
3-Private Insurance and government financing
4- Medicare, Medicaid, Private Insurance
1.Question :What were the most common medical care structures of the first half of the twentieth century?
2.Question :List the methods of physician payment.
3.Question : What are the three models of organizing care? Provide a brief description of the care provided at each level.
4.Question : What is the concept of patient cost sharing? Is it painless form of cost control? For whom?
5.Question : Describe why private health insurance coverage has decreased over the past decades, creating the uninsured/under insured crisis? Who are the uninsured?