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What groups of Americans were largely uninsured when the ACA was
being developed? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Unemployed people who could not
afford insurance, employed with no esi, employed especially the young who
did not take esi, and those with means who chose not to be insured
What groups of Americans were largely insured when the ACA was being
developed? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔medicare, mediciad, chip, military and
veterans health insurance, esi, private health insurance not related to
employment
Why didn't the ACA go to a single-payer or an NHI format? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔it was apparent that a plan eliminating any of the existing payers in the
hc system would not have sufficient support for passage
During the development of the ACA health care expenditures accounted for
a greater portion of the GPD increasing to ____ in 2009. - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔17.3%
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, The per capita expenditures for healthcare had increased from $4857 in
2000 to ___ in 2009. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔$8,141
The US has the most expensive healthcare system of all OECD Countries.
True or False. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔True
What were the Obama's administration goals? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔bend
health care cost curve downward, achieve greater equity in health
insurance coverage, and improve quality of health care
What was the public option? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔it allowed many to purchase
medicaid coverage with means tested premium.
Why wouldn't a public option work? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Theroretically over
time most employers as well as individuals would migrate into public
option/mediciad and choke out most private insurers
What was the underlying assumption of the ACA? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔cost
quality and equity are linked together
Access to healthcare or all, or most would reduce? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔it
reduces the use of expensive care, expand rationing of care, costly
exacerbation of health conditions, and uncompensated care for providers
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