Exam 1 - Week 5

Question 1

What % of money goes to medicare and medicaid?

Answer 1

27%

Question 2

What was the U.S. national expenditure as a share of GDP in 2020?

Answer 2

19.2%

Question 3

What are the public health expenditures for medicare, medicaid, & CHIP, 2015?

Answer 3

52%

Question 4

What are the public health expenditures for private health insurance in 2015?

Answer 4

48%

Question 5

What is the health condition with the most health care expenditures?

Answer 5

heart disease

Question 6

What type of program is medicare?

Answer 6

federal

Question 7

Who is medicare for? (3 things)

Answer 7

1. People age 65 or older.
2. People under age 65 with certain disabilities.
3. People of all ages with End-Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure requiring dialysis or a kidney transplant).

Question 8

How much of the federal budget was medicare in 2016?

Answer 8

15%

Question 9

Who is medicaid for? (4 things)

Answer 9

1. Low-income families
2. Pregnant women
3. People of all ages with disabilities
4. People who need long-term care

Question 10

How is medicaid funded?

Answer 10

jointly by the federal government and states

Question 11

What is nice about medicaid with the states?

Answer 11

federal guidelines are broad, states have a great deal of flexibility in designing and administering their programs.

Question 12

true or false: medicaid varies widely from state to state

Answer 12

true

Question 13

Who is medicaid spending for mostly?

Answer 13

disabled and elderly

Question 14

How does medicaid rank as a domestic program?

Answer 14

3rd largest

Question 15

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.

Answer 15

true

Question 16

The U.S. has the highest chronic what?

Answer 16

chronic disease burden and an obesity rate that is two times higher than the OECD average.

Question 17

Americans had fewer what than what? which may be related to what?

Answer 17

fewer physician visits than peers in most countries, which may be related to a low supply of physicians in the U.S.

Question 18

Americans use some of what?

Answer 18

use some expensive technologies, such as MRIs, and specialized procedures, such as hip replacements, more often than our peers.

Question 19

The U.S. outperforms in what?

Answer 19

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.

Question 20

Compared to peer nations, the U.S. has among the highest number of what?

Answer 20

hospitalizations from preventable causes and the highest rate of avoidable deaths.

Question 21

A single public or quasi-public agency takes responsibility for what?

Answer 21

for financing healthcare for all residents.

Question 22

Everyone under a single-payer system has… and has…

Answer 22

health insurance plan, and has access to necessary services — including doctors, hospitals, long-term care, prescription drugs, dentists and vision care.

Question 23

What is the single-payer system like?

Answer 23

medicare

Question 24

How does the United States operate?

Answer 24

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.

Question 25

What does the United States rely on?

Answer 25

on many means to financially support its mission of providing quality care to all Americans.

Question 26

What does the American healthcare system largely rely on?

Answer 26

1. Individual tax deductions
2. Government subsidy (federal funding)
3. Private insurance companies
4. Personal payments for services

Question 27

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?

Answer 27

socialized health care

Question 28

What are examples of socialized health care?

Answer 28

British National Health Service, and national health systems in countries such as Finland and Spain.

Question 29

What is an example in the US of socialized health care?

Answer 29

Veterans Health Administration; where the government owns the hospitals and is also the employer of all working within the VA.