MHA 707 test 1 Questions with CORRECT Answers (Grade A+)

MHA 707 test 1 Questions with CORRECT Answers
(Grade A+)

Question 1:
The Importance of good health care in America:
Answer:
- altruistic oriented set of providers and activities + huge industry + profitability - 20% of our GDP is
devoted to medical care and health promotion (value) - 11% of all US jobs are in the health sector -
sizable share of our income is spent on the health care we need

Question 2:
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

Question 3:
health maintenance
Answer:
- clear difference between health "maintenance" and "restoring" health - medical care systems care for
people even if restoring health is impossible

Question 4:
fee for service
Answer:
a system under which doctors and hospitals receive a payment for each service they provide

Question 5:
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

,Question 6:
customer friendly
Answer:
the health system could do much more to improve the experience of patients receiving care 1.
improving quality

Question 7:
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

Question 8:
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Answer:
Major Issues and 3. slowing growth of health care expenditures Concerns 4. encouraging healthy
behavior 5. improving the public health system 6. addressing inequalities in access

Question 9:
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

Question 10:
workforce
Answer:
motivated principally by the social goal of keeping people healthy

Question 11:
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

, Question 12:
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

Question 13:
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

Question 14:
insurer stakeholders
Answer:
- act of intermediary among payers, providers, and consumers to determine that kinds of health care
covered by employer's insurance plan - changing payment approaches could compete with traditional
insurance companies (direct contracting) - WANT to protect their role in the health sector - WANT to
share more risk with providers/patients

Question 15:
public policy makers stakeholders
Answer:
- included appointed officials and elected politicians - differ in views about how the health system
should work - WANT slower inflation rates in the health sector - WANT high quality care and better
patient experience - WANT state-of-the-art medical care and interventions

Question 16:
continuum of care
Answer:
encompasses care from the cradle to the grave