Lecture 3 done

Question 1

What is a health care system?

Answer 1

a network of individuals and orgs that interact for the purpose of treating illness, maintaing health, and financing care

Question 2

Describe the health care system prior to 20th century?

Answer 2

macri public health issues, medical care was crude and unsopisticated with questionable efficacy, hospital was a quarantine to die

Question 3

describe healthcare in early 20th century.

Answer 3

Federal laws to ensure drug saftey, hospital became care center, rise in for-profit healthcare, pay-as-you-go approach

Question 4

Describe post WWII healthcare.

Answer 4

government investment in healthcare infrastructure, development of wonder drugs, rise of private insurance and public programs, fee for services

Question 5

What are the tree models of insurance?

Answer 5

individual health insurance, employer sponsered, government sponsored

Question 6

What are healthcare expenditures?

Answer 6

how much money is being spent on healthcare; price times quantity

Question 7

Describe healthcare in late 20th century.

Answer 7

managed care era, promote efficiency

Question 8

Describe healthcare in the 21st century.

Answer 8

maturing managed care with bundle payments, using cheaper sources of care, excluding care, increased focus on primary care, preventon, and disease management

Question 9

What are emerging trends in the healthcare system?

Answer 9

focus on quality olf care, mergers and partnerships, rapid transformation