MHA 707 UPDATED SCRIPT 2026
PRACTICE SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
● Characteristics of US health system Answer: - not ordered or
organized as a single enterprise
- actors and organizations often work independently
- little coordination between players
- system continues to evolve haphazardly
● health maintenance Answer: - clear difference between health
"maintenance" and "restoring" health
- medical care systems care for people even if restoring health is
impossible
● fee for service Answer: a system under which doctors and hospitals
receive a payment for each service they provide
● health care delivery Answer: 1. the importance of organizations in
delivering care
2. the role of professionals in running our system
3. the emergence of new medical technology, smartphones, big data, new
pharma.
4. tension between free market and government control
,5. a dysfunctional payment system
● customer friendly Answer: the health system could do much more to
improve the experience of patients receiving care
1. improving quality
● access to health care Answer: not always ensured. many rural areas
have shortages of doctors and other providers and many doctors refuse
to see patients with certain types of insurance because of low payment
rates
2. improving access and coverage
● Major Issues and Concerns Answer: 3. slowing growth of health care
expenditures
4. encouraging healthy behavior
5. improving the public health system
6. addressing inequalities in access
● stakeholder Answer: set of people who have a strong interest in how
something in our society is done.
1. consumers
2. providers
3. employers
4. insurers
, 5. public policy makers
● workforce Answer: motivated principally by the social goal of keeping
people healthy
● consumer stakeholder Answer: - should be at the center of the health
system
- sometimes bystanders in decisions affecting their own health and
payment issues
- WANT access to quality and affordable health care for self and family
● providers stakeholders Answer: - work to advance medical knowledge
- motivated by the social goal to keep everyone healthy
- face financial pressures to prevent health care costs from increasing
- WANT fair opportunities to earn incomes that reflect their expertise
and workload
● employers stakeholders Answer: - most offer insurance as a benefit
- WANT healthy employees who are productive and who do not have to
take time off because of illness
- WANT a slowdown in their health care cost and responsibility shifted
to eomployees
PRACTICE SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
● Characteristics of US health system Answer: - not ordered or
organized as a single enterprise
- actors and organizations often work independently
- little coordination between players
- system continues to evolve haphazardly
● health maintenance Answer: - clear difference between health
"maintenance" and "restoring" health
- medical care systems care for people even if restoring health is
impossible
● fee for service Answer: a system under which doctors and hospitals
receive a payment for each service they provide
● health care delivery Answer: 1. the importance of organizations in
delivering care
2. the role of professionals in running our system
3. the emergence of new medical technology, smartphones, big data, new
pharma.
4. tension between free market and government control
,5. a dysfunctional payment system
● customer friendly Answer: the health system could do much more to
improve the experience of patients receiving care
1. improving quality
● access to health care Answer: not always ensured. many rural areas
have shortages of doctors and other providers and many doctors refuse
to see patients with certain types of insurance because of low payment
rates
2. improving access and coverage
● Major Issues and Concerns Answer: 3. slowing growth of health care
expenditures
4. encouraging healthy behavior
5. improving the public health system
6. addressing inequalities in access
● stakeholder Answer: set of people who have a strong interest in how
something in our society is done.
1. consumers
2. providers
3. employers
4. insurers
, 5. public policy makers
● workforce Answer: motivated principally by the social goal of keeping
people healthy
● consumer stakeholder Answer: - should be at the center of the health
system
- sometimes bystanders in decisions affecting their own health and
payment issues
- WANT access to quality and affordable health care for self and family
● providers stakeholders Answer: - work to advance medical knowledge
- motivated by the social goal to keep everyone healthy
- face financial pressures to prevent health care costs from increasing
- WANT fair opportunities to earn incomes that reflect their expertise
and workload
● employers stakeholders Answer: - most offer insurance as a benefit
- WANT healthy employees who are productive and who do not have to
take time off because of illness
- WANT a slowdown in their health care cost and responsibility shifted
to eomployees
