US Health Care questions with correct answers
Bismarck Model/Employer-based insurance/ Sickness funds - Answer This model uses an insurance system, called "sickness funds." It is financed jointly by employers and employees through payroll deduction. It covers everyone and the sickness funds do not make a profit. Beveridge Model/National health care/Socialized medicine - Answer Health care is provided and financed by the government through taxes. Pre-industrial Era (Cost) - Answer No health insurance, Medical services purchased out-of-pocket, Families spent very little on health care Pre-industrial Era (Access) - Answer Doctors made house calls for the wealthy, Hospitals were for the poor Pre-industrial Era (Quality) - Answer No regulation of medicine as a profession, Very few medical schools, but growing, No quality controls Post-Industrial Era (Cost) - Answer Physicians began gettng paid more, Rising health care costs and increasing number of health insurance plans occurred in 1930s
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