Health Care Reform Flashcards
categories of nation insurance
- govt financed health insurance plans
- employer mandates private health insurance
- individual mandated private health insurance plans
- hybrid plans
govt finances health insurance plans
money collected through taxes or premiums by the public
employer mandated private health insurance
govt requires employers to pay for all or part of private health insurance for their employees
individual mandated private health insurance plans
govt requires individuals to purchase private health insurance, with subsidies for low income ppl
hybrid plans
govt financed insurance for elderly and poor, etc.
AALL plan
proposed coverage of medical care, sick pay, and funeral expenses to lower paid worker and dependents
Wagner Murray Dingell
bi partisan plan for national health insurance. employer and employee contributions to cover physician and hospital care
medicare and medicaid
medicare social insurance
medicaid: public assistance
Kenneth Griffiths health security act
called for single federal operated insurance.
DSHEA passed in 1994
reduced FDAs ability to inspect dietary supplements
PPACA
affordable care act
individual mandate model
relies on multiple financing models
texas and wisconsin challenged with affordable care act
say affordable care act is unconstitutional because it is not a true tax
key coverage measure in affordable care act
high risk health insurance pools for individuals with no insurance
expansion of dependent coverage for your
EXPANSION OF COVERAGE for young adults up to age 26.
reductions of the coverage gap
expansion of medicaid
individual health insurance mandate
subsidized health insurance exchanges
eliminations of provisions that also allow the health insurers to deny coverage based on preexisting conditions
essential health benefits per PPACA
ambulatory care
maternity/ new born care
rehabilitation
Pediatic services( including oral and vision)
emergency services mental health/ substance abuse services laboratory hospitals Rx drugs preventative wellness drugs
gaps in PPACA
dental vision care
long term care
CAM (complementary alternative medicine)
