Module 1

Question 1

US Healthcare Spending chart

Answer 1

60% public (Medicare, Medicaid, and other public) and 40% private

Question 2

Compared to international

Answer 2

We spend more on health care
- Per capita
- % GDP
We are not healthier
- average Life expectancy, but lowest of that category
- better Infant mortality

Question 3

Other contributors to health beyond HC

Answer 3

• Income, welfare,
• cultural differences:
  diet, exercise, smoking, drinking,

Question 4

High Health Expenditure and better quality HC

Answer 4

Flu Vaccination, Heart Attack Survival, Lung Cancer Survival

Question 5

High Health Expenditure but worse quality HC

Answer 5

Deaths Preventable with
timely & appropriate care

Question 6

Complexities of US HC System

Answer 6

Costs of many insurers
Accessibility/unfunded mandates (only country that doesn’t have public insurance for everyone)
Misaligned Incentives

Question 7

What accounts for insurers failure

Answer 7

• Price bargaining & utilization control
• Uninsured

Question 8

What accounts for Accessibility failure?

Answer 8

• Patchy Health Insurance Coverage
• Unfunded Mandates

Question 9

What accounts for Misaligned Incentives failure

Answer 9

• demand for health care determine by supplier
• no incentive to contain costs from insurer and supplier

Question 10

Good reasons for HC spending

Answer 10

1) Growth in # insured
2) Medical Advances
3) Unfunded Mandates

But there are unintended consequences

Question 11

Per capita spending

Answer 11

total health care expenditure divided by the entire population, not just those that used health care that year.

Question 12

Likeliness of us citizen rating as health as bad

Answer 12

Less likely

Question 13

Quality care is measured by

Answer 13

Preventative care, chronic illness care, deaths prevented by primary care,