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What is absolute poverty? - correct answer ✔severe deprivation of basic human needs. Food, water,
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shelter, education, etc. It depends not only on income, but also access to services
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What is relative poverty? - correct answer ✔lack of the minimum amount of income needed to
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maintain the average standard of living in the society in which they live |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




What is the federal poverty line? How is it calculated? What are some issue with the federal poverty
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line? - correct answer ✔Federal Poverty Line (FPL) is an indicator that the United States uses to
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determine who is eligible for government subsidies and aid. |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




It is calculated as pre-tax income against a minimum food bundle, multiplied by 3 and adjusted by the
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consumer price index
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The issues with the FPL is that there is no geographic adjustments (cost of living adjustments), it only
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tracks the consumer price index, and that pre-tax income does not capture services received
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What are the main highlights of the ACA? - correct answer ✔-Expands health insurance to an
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additional ~24 million people through a combination of private and public sector initiatives |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




-offers subsidized private health insurance on exchanges, and encourages states to expand Medicaid
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to cover more people (government funded)
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-subsidies for private health insurance offered to families insurance offered to families making up
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about $92,000 per year |||||| |||||| ||||||




-Mandates and Fines: |||||| ||||||




Fines households $695 or 2.5% of income if they choose not to buy healthcare (poor are exempt)
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Fines employers with more than 50 employees $2000/ employee if they do not offer employer
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sponsored insurance ||||||




-Health insurance can no longer deny people based off of pre-existing conditions
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-Kids under 26 can remain on their parent's health insurance plans
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, Why does the ACA have subsides? fines? Mandates? - correct answer ✔-Health insurance works best
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when ALL individuals are included |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




-People who need a lot of medical care in one year are supported by people who do not, and vice
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versa

-Without the individual mandate, some people might wait until they become sick to purchase
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insurance, this would increase premiums for everybody else, and more people would be incentivized
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to wait until they are sick to purchase it - Death Spiral of Insurance
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-Employer mandate works as an incentive for employers to continue offering health insurance; the
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ACA is built on top of our employer-oriented health insurance program
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-Subsidies: some people cannot afford health insurance on their own, but are not poor enough for |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




medicaid



What is the number of people expected to gain insurance through the ACA? How will people
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specifically gain insurance coverage? - correct answer ✔Approximately 24 million people will gain |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




coverage from the Affordable Care Act, this will be done through both public and private sectors of
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insurance



How do the ACA marketplaces (exchanges) operate? - correct answer ✔Each state operates its own
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exchange (marketplace), which is essentially a website, where many different private health insurers
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can offer plans that are then grouped by levels of generosity: bronze, silver, gold, and platinum
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Who qualifies for a subsidy on the ACA? - correct answer ✔Anyone can use the exchange, but
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premium subsidies go to low income people not offered insurance by their employers, and low
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income people whose employer offers a plan where the employer's share of the premium is 9.5% of
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their income or more |||||| |||||| ||||||




What is the employer mandate in regards to the ACA? - correct answer ✔Employers with 50+
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employees must offer some kind of ESI, or they will be charged $2000 per employee |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




What do essential health benefits and preventative services have to do with the ACA? - correct
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answer ✔Many policies that did not cover all EHBs were cancelled in the fall of 2013, which created
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political problems ||||||




Now the ACA requires all health care plans to cover 10 different EHBs, and 15 different preventative
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