TEST BANK FOR
DELIVERING
HEALTH CARE IN
TH
AMERICA 6
EDITION BY
DOUGLAS A. SINGH
, Chapter 1: a distinctive system of health care delivery
multiple choice questions
1. The primary objectives of a healthcare system include all of the following except:
a. Enabling all citizens to receive healthcare services
b. Delivering healthcare services that are cost-effective
c. Delivering healthcare services using the most current technology, regardless of
cost
d. Delivering healthcare services that meet established standards of quality
2. The u.s. healthcare system can best be described as:
a. Expensive
b. Fragmented
c. Market-oriented
d. All of the above
3. For most privately insured americans, health insurance is:
a. Employer-based
b. Financed by the government
c. Privately purchased
d. None of the above
4. What is the major objective of the affordable care act?
a. To reduce cost
b. To provide insurance coverage
c. To enhance quality
d. To simplify administration
5. Medicare is primarily for people who meet the following eligibility requirement:
a. Elderly
b. Low-income
c. Children
d. Disabled
6. Medicaid is primarily for people who meet the following eligibility requirement:
a. Elderly
b. Low-income
c. Children
d. Disabled
7. The primary functions of managed care include all of the following except:
a. Improving quality
b. Achieving efficiencies
,c. Setting prices at which providers are paid
d. Controlling patients‟ utilization of services
, 8. Under free market conditions, the relationship between the quantity of medical
services
Demanded and the price of medical services is:
a. Unknown
b. Equal
c. Direct
d. Inverse
9. The role of the government in the u.s. healthcare system is:
a. Regulator
b. Major financer
c. Medicare and medicaid reimbursement rate-setter
d. All of the above
10. Which of the following countries has a national health system (nhs)?
a. Japan
b. Great britain
c. Australia
d. Germany
11. Which of the following is a characteristic of a national health insurance system?
a. The government finances health care through general taxes
b. Health care is delivered by private providers
c. Both a and b
d. Neither a nor b
12. Which of the following is a characteristic of a socialized health insurance system?
a. Health care is financed through government-mandated contributions by
employers and employees
b. Health care is delivered by government-employed providers
c. Both a and b
d. Neither a nor b
13. In 1984, australia switched:
a. From the medicare program to a universal national health care program
b. From a universal national health care program to a privately financed system
c. From a privately financed system to the medicare program
d. None of the above
14. A free market in healthcare requires:
a. Adequate information for patients
b. Independent actions between buyers (patients) and sellers (providers)
c. Unencumbered interaction of the forces of supply and demand
d. All of the above
DELIVERING
HEALTH CARE IN
TH
AMERICA 6
EDITION BY
DOUGLAS A. SINGH
, Chapter 1: a distinctive system of health care delivery
multiple choice questions
1. The primary objectives of a healthcare system include all of the following except:
a. Enabling all citizens to receive healthcare services
b. Delivering healthcare services that are cost-effective
c. Delivering healthcare services using the most current technology, regardless of
cost
d. Delivering healthcare services that meet established standards of quality
2. The u.s. healthcare system can best be described as:
a. Expensive
b. Fragmented
c. Market-oriented
d. All of the above
3. For most privately insured americans, health insurance is:
a. Employer-based
b. Financed by the government
c. Privately purchased
d. None of the above
4. What is the major objective of the affordable care act?
a. To reduce cost
b. To provide insurance coverage
c. To enhance quality
d. To simplify administration
5. Medicare is primarily for people who meet the following eligibility requirement:
a. Elderly
b. Low-income
c. Children
d. Disabled
6. Medicaid is primarily for people who meet the following eligibility requirement:
a. Elderly
b. Low-income
c. Children
d. Disabled
7. The primary functions of managed care include all of the following except:
a. Improving quality
b. Achieving efficiencies
,c. Setting prices at which providers are paid
d. Controlling patients‟ utilization of services
, 8. Under free market conditions, the relationship between the quantity of medical
services
Demanded and the price of medical services is:
a. Unknown
b. Equal
c. Direct
d. Inverse
9. The role of the government in the u.s. healthcare system is:
a. Regulator
b. Major financer
c. Medicare and medicaid reimbursement rate-setter
d. All of the above
10. Which of the following countries has a national health system (nhs)?
a. Japan
b. Great britain
c. Australia
d. Germany
11. Which of the following is a characteristic of a national health insurance system?
a. The government finances health care through general taxes
b. Health care is delivered by private providers
c. Both a and b
d. Neither a nor b
12. Which of the following is a characteristic of a socialized health insurance system?
a. Health care is financed through government-mandated contributions by
employers and employees
b. Health care is delivered by government-employed providers
c. Both a and b
d. Neither a nor b
13. In 1984, australia switched:
a. From the medicare program to a universal national health care program
b. From a universal national health care program to a privately financed system
c. From a privately financed system to the medicare program
d. None of the above
14. A free market in healthcare requires:
a. Adequate information for patients
b. Independent actions between buyers (patients) and sellers (providers)
c. Unencumbered interaction of the forces of supply and demand
d. All of the above
