Week 9 Quiz #5 (Ch. 18) Med. Ethics Questions and Answers.

If you were running a medical insurance company, to maximize profits, you would not pursue which of the following strategies or policies? - Answer Advocate laws that require community rating The theme of the former Governor of Colorado Richard Lamm's critique of the financing of the American medical system is that: - Answer medical care is being unjustly funded too exorbitantly, and future generations must pay these debts. The Canadian medical system is not _____. - Answer composed of physicians who work for the government Most Canadians want an American-style system of medical finance and medical coverage. - Answer False For John Rawls, understanding what justice requires of us does not involve: - Answer the protection of rights over property against demands of egalitarians for its redistribution, e.g., by income and inheritance taxes. The American College of Surgeons backed President Clinton's plan for a national medical coverage proposed in the 1993 National Health Security bill. - Answer True Libertarians believe that the cost of covering the uninsured will dramatically increase as the last 10 percent, 5 percent, or 1 percent of the uninsured population are brought into a system of universal medical coverage. - Answer True Which of these most accurately describes Social Security? - Answer It's a revolving door, pay-as-you-go system where working adults pay for what retirees receive. EMTALA refers to the federal government room that: - Answer requires pregnant women in labor to be stabilized in emergency rooms. A feature of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is that _____. - Answer it is based on the moral premise that no one who served in the armed forces should later lack medical care