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HAPP 452 Exam 1 Questions with Answers (100% Correct
Answers)
What is the combined ethos (identity/perspective) of your textbook
authors Bodenheimer and Grumbach?
A. Expert in health economics and government policy-making
B. Practicing medical specialist and health economists
C. Patient advocates and lawyers by training
D. Retired medical school dean(s) working in private practice
E. Public and private physicians working as primary care providers
Answer: E. Public and private physicians working as primary care
providers
How would you characterize the goal of the text proffered by
Bodenheimer and Grumbach?
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A. To educate policy wonks about the detailed economics surrounding
the U.S. health care system.
B. To describe to clinicians, public health professionals and others
engaged in the biomedical enterprise why the U.S. health care system
is admired by most of the world.
C. To describe to patient advocates and others concerned with public
health how the U.S. health care system functions with equal emphasis
on the system's strengths and weaknesses.
D. To describe to clinicians, public health professionals and others
engaged in the biomedical enterprise how the U.S. health care system
functions with particular emphasis on problems that need fixing.
E. A and C Answer: To describe to clinicians, public health
professionals and others engaged in the biomedical enterprise how the
U.S. health care system functions with particular emphasis on
problems that need fixing.
According to an example in Bodenheimer and Grumbach, a man who
contracted leukemia utilized services that resulted in hospital bills that
were on the order of:
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A. $5,000
B. $10,000
C. $500 per month
D. $80,000
E. Deductibles of $5,000 Answer: D. $80,000
Why does Bodenheimer and Grumbach Table 2-1 show that
government financing covers 33% of the population at the same time
as government pays for 47% of all national health care expenditures?
A. Because government spending is less efficient that private
spending.
B. Because Medicaid and Medicare are less efficient than employer-
based coverage.
C. Because government programs generally cover sicker populations
compared to private programs.
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D. Because taxes for health care are too high.
E. Because taxes for health care are too low. Answer: C. Because
government programs generally cover sicker populations compared to
private programs.
Per Bodenheimer and Grumbach why did individual private health
care never grain traction in the U.S.?
A. Hospital and physicians controlled Blue Cross and Blue Shield and
thus set up payment streams that would promote demand.
B. Wage controls of World War II encouraged employers to
compensate employees with increasingly generous health care
coverage.
C. Federal tax incentives for employers.
D. None of the above.
E. All of the above, except d. Answer: E. All of the above, except d.
Which of the following historical trends was identified in Chapter 2 of
Bodenheimer and Grumbach:
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HAPP 452 Exam 1 Questions with Answers (100% Correct
Answers)
What is the combined ethos (identity/perspective) of your textbook
authors Bodenheimer and Grumbach?
A. Expert in health economics and government policy-making
B. Practicing medical specialist and health economists
C. Patient advocates and lawyers by training
D. Retired medical school dean(s) working in private practice
E. Public and private physicians working as primary care providers
Answer: E. Public and private physicians working as primary care
providers
How would you characterize the goal of the text proffered by
Bodenheimer and Grumbach?
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A. To educate policy wonks about the detailed economics surrounding
the U.S. health care system.
B. To describe to clinicians, public health professionals and others
engaged in the biomedical enterprise why the U.S. health care system
is admired by most of the world.
C. To describe to patient advocates and others concerned with public
health how the U.S. health care system functions with equal emphasis
on the system's strengths and weaknesses.
D. To describe to clinicians, public health professionals and others
engaged in the biomedical enterprise how the U.S. health care system
functions with particular emphasis on problems that need fixing.
E. A and C Answer: To describe to clinicians, public health
professionals and others engaged in the biomedical enterprise how the
U.S. health care system functions with particular emphasis on
problems that need fixing.
According to an example in Bodenheimer and Grumbach, a man who
contracted leukemia utilized services that resulted in hospital bills that
were on the order of:
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A. $5,000
B. $10,000
C. $500 per month
D. $80,000
E. Deductibles of $5,000 Answer: D. $80,000
Why does Bodenheimer and Grumbach Table 2-1 show that
government financing covers 33% of the population at the same time
as government pays for 47% of all national health care expenditures?
A. Because government spending is less efficient that private
spending.
B. Because Medicaid and Medicare are less efficient than employer-
based coverage.
C. Because government programs generally cover sicker populations
compared to private programs.
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D. Because taxes for health care are too high.
E. Because taxes for health care are too low. Answer: C. Because
government programs generally cover sicker populations compared to
private programs.
Per Bodenheimer and Grumbach why did individual private health
care never grain traction in the U.S.?
A. Hospital and physicians controlled Blue Cross and Blue Shield and
thus set up payment streams that would promote demand.
B. Wage controls of World War II encouraged employers to
compensate employees with increasingly generous health care
coverage.
C. Federal tax incentives for employers.
D. None of the above.
E. All of the above, except d. Answer: E. All of the above, except d.
Which of the following historical trends was identified in Chapter 2 of
Bodenheimer and Grumbach:
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