PHC 4101 Module 5 Quiz (100% Correct Answers)

AMA correct answers - Mid 1800s - Standards of care were initiated - Argued against national health insurance in 1900s Civil War correct answers Catalyzed growth and evolution of hospitals - previously reserved for mentally ill or destitute ill Hill-Burton Act correct answers - 1947 - Funded hospital and other health care facility construction Prepaid Hospital Service Plan correct answers - 1929 -Became model for Blue Cross Blue Shield Funding and Structure correct answers - Private expenditures: 54% - Government sources: 47% - Private/public insurance supports 84% of population Private Insurance correct answers - Covers 58% of population - Accounts for 33% of total healthcare expenditures US Health Care System correct answers - More costly than any other industrialized country ($3.35 trillion) - Constitutes the single largest service vector in US - Second largest industry only passed by durable goods/manufacturing - Spends twice as much of its GDP on healthcare as does UK - Does NOT have: healthier people, better access to healthcare, less medical errors Medicare correct answers - 1965 - 65+ - Administered by federal government - Uses private insurance companies across US under contract for administration - contribute a portion of payroll tax throughout working lives Medicare Parts correct answers A - Ambulance B - Physician and out patient C - Managed care D - Drugs Medicare Issues correct answers - High-cost sharing equipments - A: deductibles - B: monthly premiums - D: cost-sharing/copays - Gaps in benefits