_____ was a the heart of the ACA. Ans✓✓✓ changes to the private health
insurance market
3 ways the ACA addressed the problem of health care costs Ans✓✓✓ Spread the
costs of health care over all people by requiring all persons to have health
insurance, seek efficiencies (discounts), and promote prevention and reduce the
demand for health care services
40 million+ people who moved into private health insurance markets and did not
qualify for subsidies or tax credits under the ACA because they exceeded the
qulifying FPL were particularly affected by_______ Ans✓✓✓ the cost of health
insurance
Access to healthcare or all, or most would reduce? Ans✓✓✓ it reduces the use of
expensive care, expand rationing of care, costly exacerbation of health conditions,
and uncompensated care for providers
According to the Prevention and Public Health Fund, preventing health problems
is another way to _____________ Ans✓✓✓ decrease demand for healthcare and
reduce its costs
As a result of the death spiral, ____. Ans✓✓✓ healthier people disenroll in the
plan in favor of less expensive coverage
By mandating that everyone have health insurance, the ACA distributes health
care costs over people in poor health and good health. This is process of ___.
Ans✓✓✓ community rating
, Drafters of the ACA were attempting to avoid what the industry calls a ____.
Ans✓✓✓ death spiral
During the development of the ACA health care expenditures accounted for a
greater portion of the GPD increasing to ____ in 2009. Ans✓✓✓ 17.3%
Even ACA supports acknowledged that the provate health insurance market
needed attention and revision which focused on areas in ____________
Ans✓✓✓ variation in premiums by state and their increasing costs
Exisiting government health insurance plans were relatively unchanged in that
____. Ans✓✓✓ medicare was retained, health insurance for veterans and
military was retained, traditional medicaid was retained, and chip was extended
In 2015, the Supreme Court ruled what? Ans✓✓✓ the federal government can
provide nation wide tax subsidies to help poor and middle class people buy health
insurance
In 2016, the face of the House changed from Democratic to ____________
Ans✓✓✓ Republican
In order to extend basic coverage to people who were uninsured or underinsured,
the ACA ___. Ans✓✓✓ mandated that private health insurance plans meet
minimum standards
New revenue generated from the ACA came from: Ans✓✓✓ tax penalty from
those who did not purchase coverage, tax on the most expensive "cadillac"