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Long term care needs of older, chronically ill Americans pose a particular delivery system challenge because - Neither Medicare nor private insurance support ongoing, nonacute services Americans spend $9 billion + each year on alternative and complementary therapies. This trend has caused - man...

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HSA FINAL Exam questions and correct
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Long term care needs of older, chronically ill Americans pose a particular delivery system

challenge because - ✔✔Neither Medicare nor private insurance support ongoing, non-

acute services



Americans spend $9 billion + each year on alternative and complementary therapies. This trend

has caused - ✔✔many private insurers and Medicare and Medicaid to provide benefit coverage

for certain treatments



Of the levels of prevention associated with the natural history of disease, primary prevention

refers to - ✔✔health education and specific protection



In the past, patient behaviors within the health care delivery system were formed from the

authoritarian positions of better-educated providers who expected patients to be compliant and

grateful. Today, health care providers and consumers - ✔✔encourage more proactive roles

for patients' participation in health care decisions with "shared decision-making"



Potential conflicts of interest occur when physicians own or invest in businesses (e.g. diagnostic,

medical supply companies) to which they can refer patients to generate profits. In response to

these physician conflict of interest issues - ✔✔The ACA includes "Sunshine provisions" require

reporting of all financial transactions and transfers of value between pharmaceutical/biologic

,product manufacturers and physicians, hospitals and other entities reimbursed by the

federal government



U.S. annual health care expenditures far outstrip those of 7 other developed nations. In

relationship with expenditures, U.S. health population status ranking on critical indicators

in comparison with those other developed nations is - ✔✔Dismally lower




In the natural history of a disease, the pre-pathogenesis period refers to - ✔✔Behavioral,

genetic, environmental and other factors that may contribute to an individual's likelihood of

contracting a disease



The U.S. healthcare delivery system has numerous stakeholders. In terms of financial power,

control of delivery system parameters for the majority of Americans, and influence on consumers

and providers of health care, which of the following pairs of stakeholders is the most influential -

✔✔Government and private health insurers



The service priorities of the U.S. health care system reflect America's fascination with dramatic

high-tech medicine. As a result - ✔✔little of the health care dollar is spent on

prevention the US system is the most expensive in the world

the US has the world's most advanced medical capability



The Oregon Death with Dignity Act was a response to which of the following? - ✔✔public and

professional concerns about painful and demeaning terminal medical care

,The major health care advances of the second half of the 20th century were in the area of -

✔✔vaccines and antibiotics to prevent and control infectious diseases, tranquilizers, the

birth control pill



Blue Cross Hospital Insurance, the predominant form of health insurance for decades, was

modeled after - ✔✔Baylor University Hospital's school teachers plan



As early as the 19th century some Americans carried "health insurance" through employers,

fraternal orders, guilds, trade associations, unions or commercial insurance companies. However

unlike health insurance of today, these insurance policies only provided for - ✔✔Fixed

payments to compensate for lost wages due to injury, sickness or disability



The Medicaid program has a history of very low reimbursement as compared with Medicare

reimbursement; critics site low Medicaid reimbursement as a major reason that primary care

doctors have rejected serving the Medicaid population. An ACA provision addresses this issue

by - ✔✔Requiring physicians to document their losses from Medicaid payment in relation to

their costs in order to receive increased reimbursement for services to Medicaid patients



The American Medical Association's initial reaction to Blue Cross hospital insurance plans

suggested that the plans - ✔✔Were unsound and unethical

, The explosion of science and technology in the 1970s resulted in which of the following? -

✔✔Encouragement for physicians'

specialization Higher costs of health care

Medical school efforts to attract more students to primary care



The most significant social legislation passed by any Congress in the history of the United States

was the - ✔✔Social Security Act of 1935



A central provision of the ACA to assure health care coverage for most Americans is -

✔✔the individual mandate



One of the first, most influential "plans" for hospital coverage, which generated the Blue Cross

hospital insurance - ✔✔Baylor University Hospital plan



Policies that call on the government to prescribe and control behavior of a group of individuals in

which sanctions are imposed for noncompliance - ✔✔Regulatory



The majority of financing in the US Health Care system comes from - ✔✔private sources




The US health care system is unlike any in the world because - ✔✔it is

fragmented it is a $2.7 trillion industry

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