Quizes Flashcards
The practice of providing health coverage for a group of individuals where everyone pays the same amount for the insurance regardless of age, health risk, gender or source of employment is
A. Inclusion Insurance
B. Community Rating
C. Community Care
D. Universal Health Insurance.
B. Community Rating
Virtually anyone could get into the business of “healing” was known as
A. Open Market
B. Barbers
C. Witch doctor
D. Charlatans
A. Open Market
Which physician became the unofficial father of epidemiology in 1854 by uncovering the origin of cholera?
A. John Snow
B. Joseph Lister
C. Thomas Garfield
D. Louis Pasteur
A. John Snow
A digital record of the care provided to a patient by a healthcare organization, including the patient’s up-to-date, real-time health-related information is known as:
A. electronic services
B. electronic health record
C. paper medical chart
D. telehealth
B. electronic health record
The Blue Cross Plans, created in 1929, is where hospitals provided coverage for the insured teachers and the Blue Shield Plan, created in 1939, covered physician care for mining and lumber camps.
True or False?
True
President Obama signed ___into law in 2010.
A. Affordable Care Act
B. The Medicare Modernization Act
C. The Tax Reform
D. The Medical Propaganda
A. Affordable Care Act
Insurance for coal miners was likely to cost more because of their exposure to coal dust and pollution filled air
True or False?
True
The Kerr-Mills Legislation included two important policy decisions; medical assistance for a newly classified group of people, the indigent elderly and a matching grant mechanism based on the relative wealth of the state. This legislation is also known as the ___and was created in the 1960s.
A. Hill-Burton Act
B. Medical Assistance for the Aged Act
C. Medicare
D. Social Insurnace
B. Medical Assistance for the Aged Act
In 1929, Harvard Medical School provided local school district teachers 21 days of hospital coverage for 50 cents per month.
True or False?
False
In 1910, the ___published after a five year study of medicine in the United States concluded that medical education should include two years of science and two years of clinical training in hospitals.
A. American Journal of Health
B. American Medical Association
C. New York Times
D. Flexner Report
D. Flexner Report
In 1963, the President passed the Health Education Facilities Act that started a stream of funding to open 54 more medical schools before federal appropriations ended in 1980.
True or False?
False
The Hill-Burton Act was significant because it relied on the concept of federal-state cost sharing.
True or False?
True
Before the 1860’s hospitals were often not clean; it was not common for patients to share beds, and a stench frequently permeated every corner.
True or False
True
The federal program that provides health insurance coverage for people over the age of 65 is known as:
A. Social Security Act
B. Medicaid
C. Federal Assistance
D. Medicare
D. Medicare
In what century was there significant developments in the process of delivering care and in the way providers were paid.
A. Eighteenth
B. Nineteenth
C. Twenty-First
D. Twentieth
D. Twentieth
