HMGT 3310 Midterm (With complete solution)

the drive for regulating health stems from controlling: correct answers quality, access, cost; they always have a trade off what was the first form of health insurance? correct answers Baylor Hospitals developed a plan for unlimited access by school teachers in return for prepayment in the form of a set monthly sum blue cross insurance correct answers first nonprofit insurance company that covered inpatient expenses; formed in 1939 the impact of WWII on health insurance? correct answers 1. freeze on wages during war left few options to attract workers but it exempted fringe benefits such as employer-paid insurance; firms used this to entice prospective workers 2. subsequent tax regulations compounded the value of insurance; health insurance benefits were excluded from income tax Hill-burton Act correct answers -1946; provided federal grants to fund hospitals construction and renovations -must do the following: provide minimum amounts of indigent care (care for the poor), to operate ERs, decline from discriminating against patients based on race Participation in Medicare/aid When was Medicare and Medicaid established? correct answers 1965 Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) correct answers a less costly alternative to tradition health insurance through a passage of legislation to encourage their adoption in employer benefit plans; 1973 what did congress do in 1976 to control healthcare costs? correct answers mandated states implement health planning programs to rationalize proliferation of expensive and obligate services change in Medicare in 1983 correct answers switched from a fee for service method to one based on prospectively set mouton deterred by each patient's primary diagnosis pillars of the regulatory system correct answers federal, state, private Three branches of government correct answers 1. Legislative 2. Executive 3. Judicial