Financing Healthcare Management

Question 1

What is the total NHS budget for 2017/18?

Answer 1

£124Bn

Question 2

What did the Lord Carter Review show?

Answer 2

How NHS hospitals can save money and improve care

Question 3

Which of these countries uses the public healthcare insurance model?

A) Canada
B) Taiwan
C) South Korea
D) All of the above

Answer 3

D) All of the above

Question 4

True or false: Under the public healthcare insurance model, consumers use private-sector providers, paid for by a government-run insurance programme that every citizen pays in to

Answer 4

True

Question 5

True or false: UK, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia, Hong Kong and New Zealand all use the Beveridge model of healthcare

Answer 5

True

Question 6

Levies on items such as beer, cigarettes, recreational activities and foodstuffs are an example of what type of taxation, regressive or progressive?

Answer 6

Regressive

Falls more heavily on the poor than the rich

Question 7

Taxes imposed on luxury products purchased primarily by affluent sections of society are an example of what type of taxation, regressive or progressive?

Answer 7

Progressive

Falls more heavily on the rich than the poor

Question 8

General tax revenue is supplemented by what source?

Answer 8

Deficit financing

Question 9

How is deficit financing achieved?

A) Issuing bonds/certificates
B) Long-term, low interest loans
C) Bilateral or multilateral aid loans
D) All of the above

Answer 9

D) All of the above