Health Reform 🦆 Flashcards
Who are the 7 big players ?
- Richard Nixon
- Bobby Kennedy (RFK)
- The Heritage Foundation (conservative think tank)
- George W. Bush
- Bill Clinton
- Mitt Romney
- Obama
What are the 3 ways national insurance could be financed ?
- Government-financed
- Employer-mandate
- Individual mandate
What is national health insurance?
universal coverage for everyone
what are the 2 types of government-financing insurance ?
public and social insurance
What are 4 specific things the ACA does ?
- expand the elligibility for Medicaid by eliminating the categorical eligibility
- Through individual mandate requiring all citizens to have coverage
- if 50 or more full time employees don’t have insurance, then employers have to pay penalties
- Regulates the insurance market
What is one specific thing the ACA doesn’t do ?
guarantee affordable/universal coverage
What more should still be done? If you were in charge of continuing health care reform efforts, what would you seek to do?
Control costs of health insurance
what is social insurance?
pay into the program to be elligible
what is public insurance ?
elligibility determined by your means
Which of the big players was behind government-financed insurance ?
Bobby Kennedy RFK
what does government-financed mean ?
state run, tax-like contribution from the state government
What 2 big players were responsible for employer-mandate ?
- Richard Nixon
- Bill Clinton
what does employer-mandate mean?
giving private national insurance because of employment
What 3 big players were responsible for individual-mandate ?
- The Heritage Foundation
- George W. Bush
- Mitt Romney
What does individual-mandate mean?
federal government require all residents to buy individual insurance policies
who is the big player responsible for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ?
Obama
What 2 laws did the ACA get many of its ideas ?
- The 1989 Heritage Foundation’s individual mandate
- Mitt Romney Massachusetts individual mandate plan of 2006
