Exam 1 - Week 5 Flashcards
What % of money goes to medicare and medicaid?
27%
What was the U.S. national expenditure as a share of GDP in 2020?
19.2%
What are the public health expenditures for medicare, medicaid, & CHIP, 2015?
52%
What are the public health expenditures for private health insurance in 2015?
48%
What is the health condition with the most health care expenditures?
heart disease
What type of program is medicare?
federal
Who is medicare for? (3 things)
- People age 65 or older.
- People under age 65 with certain disabilities.
- People of all ages with End-Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure requiring dialysis or a kidney transplant).
How much of the federal budget was medicare in 2016?
15%
Who is medicaid for? (4 things)
- Low-income families
- Pregnant women
- People of all ages with disabilities
- People who need long-term care
How is medicaid funded?
jointly by the federal government and states
What is nice about medicaid with the states?
federal guidelines are broad, states have a great deal of flexibility in designing and administering their programs.
true or false: medicaid varies widely from state to state
true
Who is medicaid spending for mostly?
disabled and elderly
How does medicaid rank as a domestic program?
3rd largest
True or false: The U.S. spends more on health care as a share of the economy — nearly twice as much as the average OECD country — yet has the lowest life expectancy and highest suicide rates among the 11 nations.
true
The U.S. has the highest chronic what?
chronic disease burden and an obesity rate that is two times higher than the OECD average.
Americans had fewer what than what? which may be related to what?
fewer physician visits than peers in most countries, which may be related to a low supply of physicians in the U.S.
Americans use some of what?
use some expensive technologies, such as MRIs, and specialized procedures, such as hip replacements, more often than our peers.
The U.S. outperforms in what?
The U.S. outperforms its peers in terms of preventive measures — it has the one of the highest rates of breast cancer screening among women ages 50 to 69 and the second-highest rate (after the U.K.) of flu vaccinations among people age 65 and older.
Compared to peer nations, the U.S. has among the highest number of what?
hospitalizations from preventable causes and the highest rate of avoidable deaths.
A single public or quasi-public agency takes responsibility for what?
for financing healthcare for all residents.
Everyone under a single-payer system has… and has…
health insurance plan, and has access to necessary services — including doctors, hospitals, long-term care, prescription drugs, dentists and vision care.
What is the single-payer system like?
medicare
How does the United States operate?
a largely free-enterprise system, meaning that the healthcare economy is competitive and capitalistic in nature.
- Numerous options exist for individuals and companies to finance healthcare, which in turn provides excellent variety in services and products.
What does the United States rely on?
on many means to financially support its mission of providing quality care to all Americans.
What does the American healthcare system largely rely on?
- Individual tax deductions
- Government subsidy (federal funding)
- Private insurance companies
- Personal payments for services
What is a health care system in which the government owns and operates health care facilities and employs the health care professionals, thus also paying for all health care services?
socialized health care
What are examples of socialized health care?
British National Health Service, and national health systems in countries such as Finland and Spain.
What is an example in the US of socialized health care?
Veterans Health Administration; where the government owns the hospitals and is also the employer of all working within the VA.
