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Module 1: Decision-Making in Healthcare and Insurance Markets
1. What does scarcity in health economics refer to?
A. Limited insurance coverage for high-cost treatments
B. The inability to produce enough medical professionals
C. Resources available are less than required for all desired activities
D. High costs associated with medical equipment
Answer: C
2. Opportunity cost is defined as:
A. The financial cost of healthcare services
B. The benefit forgone by not choosing an alternative action
C. The profit made by healthcare providers
D. The loss incurred due to inefficiency in healthcare
Answer: B
3. What is the main goal of efficiency in healthcare?
A. Minimizing patient dissatisfaction
B. Reducing the cost of care
C. Maximizing health outcomes with given resources
D. Providing equal access to all patients
Answer: C
4. Which of the following describes equity in healthcare?
A. Reducing social disparities in health and healthcare access
B. Maximizing profits for healthcare providers
C. Ensuring everyone receives identical treatment
D. Allocating resources based on market demand
Answer: A
5. What is a fundamental assumption about consumer behavior in healthcare markets?
A. Consumers are perfectly informed about service quality
B. Consumers never face budget restrictions
C. Consumers prioritize convenience over cost
D. Consumers lack preferences for specific goods
Answer: A
,6. Firms in healthcare markets aim to maximize:
A. Patient satisfaction
B. Profit
C. Access to healthcare
D. Public health outcomes
Answer: B
7. Externalities in healthcare occur when:
A. Patients misuse insurance benefits
B. Healthcare providers offer unnecessary treatments
C. Insurance companies raise premiums
D. One person's actions affect another without compensation
Answer: D
8. What is a positive externality in healthcare?
A. Increased hospital revenue
B. A vaccinated individual reducing disease spread in the community
C. Higher insurance premiums
D. Greater demand for pharmaceutical products
Answer: B
9. What is moral hazard in the context of healthcare?
A. Patients hiding health conditions from insurers
B. Providers charging extra for unnecessary services
C. A party taking unobservable actions that benefit them after an agreement
D. Consumers failing to compare healthcare plans
Answer: C
10. Adverse selection typically occurs due to:
A. Asymmetric information before a transaction
B. Excessive government regulation
C. Insufficient healthcare infrastructure
D. Overutilization of healthcare services
Answer: A
11. What does the Rothschild-Stiglitz Model analyze?
A. The impact of healthcare policies on equity
B. The instability caused by adverse selection in insurance markets
C. The efficiency of healthcare delivery systems
D. The distribution of healthcare costs across demographics
Answer: B
12. What type of insurance equilibrium involves high-risk and low-risk individuals
sharing the same premium?
, A. Separating equilibrium
B. Pooling equilibrium
C. Risk-adjusted equilibrium
D. Cost-minimized equilibrium
Answer: B
13. Under capitation payment systems, healthcare providers:
A. Receive a fixed payment per patient over a specific period
B. Earn based on the number of services provided
C. Are reimbursed for each medication prescribed
D. Share profits with insurance companies
Answer: A
14. Which bias occurs when people judge the likelihood of events based on familiar
patterns?
A. Availability bias
B. Anchoring bias
C. Representativeness bias
D. Framing bias
Answer: C
15. According to Prospect Theory, people are typically:
A. Risk-averse for gains and risk-seeking for losses
B. Risk-neutral in all scenarios
C. Always risk-seeking, regardless of context
D. Unaffected by the framing of outcomes
Answer: A
16. What does nudging in healthcare decision-making aim to achieve?
A. Force patients to choose specific treatments
B. Promote equity in healthcare distribution
C. Limit patients' options for simplicity
D. Guide choices through subtle presentation changes
Answer: D
17. A purely retrospective reimbursement system is also known as:
A. Capitation payment
B. Fee-for-service
C. Diagnosis-related group payment
D. Pay-for-performance
Answer: B
18. Which payment method reduces supplier-induced demand most effectively?
A. Retrospective reimbursement
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