DYNAMICS OF HEALTH CARE IN SOCIETY
RUTGERS FINAL PAPER 2026
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
●● Affordable Care Act.
Answer: Signed into law in 2010 by Obama, aimed to increase access to
health insurance while keeping healthcare costs down
●● Who is most likely to remain uninsured after the ACA?.
Answer: - Non-elderly adults with income below 200% of the Federal
Poverty Level whose employer doesn't provide health insurance
- Those unable to buy insurance because of the cost of premiums
- Hispanic, American/Alaskan Natives, and those living in the South and
West in states that didn't expand Medicaid
●● Arrival of Antibiotics.
Answer: 1940, one of the things that signaled the end of the dominance
of acute infectious diseases
●● Implementation of Childhood Universal Vaccination.
Answer: 1950, also one of the things that signaled the end of the
dominance of acute infectious diseases.
,- Public health program to prevent communicable diseases through
vaccination programs
- Eliminated childhood infectious diseases such as measles, mumps,
rubella, meningitis, hepatitis A and B, and polio
●● Implementation of Medicaid and Medicare.
Answer: Implemented in 1965
- Medicaid: Insurance for the low incomed
- Medicare: Insurance for elderly adults 65 years or older
●● Healthcare Trends regarding Insurance.
Answer: - In 2008, 17% of the population was uninsured
- In 1027, 10% of the population was uninsured
●● County Health Rankings.
Answer:
●● Technological Impact on Healthcare.
Answer: - Improvement on sanitation and hygiene (systems for
safeguarding food and drink)
-Better personal hygiene
-Improvement of nutrition
- Better surgical techniques
, - New treatment methods
- New tests to facilitate accurate diagnoses
- Treatment of individual diseases
●● Overview of the US Healthcare System.
Answer: The healthcare industry is a complex system that provides
services:
- Diagnostic
- Therapeutic
- Preventive
No centralized healthcare delivery system in the United States!
●● Service providers for the US Healthcare System.
Answer: Hospitals, clinics, government and volunteer agencies,
pharmaceutical and medical equipment manufacturers, and private
insurance companies
●● Categories of Healthcare Services.
Answer: - Health promotion
- Disease prevention
- Diagnosis and treatment of illness
- Rehabilitation
- Chronic care
RUTGERS FINAL PAPER 2026
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
●● Affordable Care Act.
Answer: Signed into law in 2010 by Obama, aimed to increase access to
health insurance while keeping healthcare costs down
●● Who is most likely to remain uninsured after the ACA?.
Answer: - Non-elderly adults with income below 200% of the Federal
Poverty Level whose employer doesn't provide health insurance
- Those unable to buy insurance because of the cost of premiums
- Hispanic, American/Alaskan Natives, and those living in the South and
West in states that didn't expand Medicaid
●● Arrival of Antibiotics.
Answer: 1940, one of the things that signaled the end of the dominance
of acute infectious diseases
●● Implementation of Childhood Universal Vaccination.
Answer: 1950, also one of the things that signaled the end of the
dominance of acute infectious diseases.
,- Public health program to prevent communicable diseases through
vaccination programs
- Eliminated childhood infectious diseases such as measles, mumps,
rubella, meningitis, hepatitis A and B, and polio
●● Implementation of Medicaid and Medicare.
Answer: Implemented in 1965
- Medicaid: Insurance for the low incomed
- Medicare: Insurance for elderly adults 65 years or older
●● Healthcare Trends regarding Insurance.
Answer: - In 2008, 17% of the population was uninsured
- In 1027, 10% of the population was uninsured
●● County Health Rankings.
Answer:
●● Technological Impact on Healthcare.
Answer: - Improvement on sanitation and hygiene (systems for
safeguarding food and drink)
-Better personal hygiene
-Improvement of nutrition
- Better surgical techniques
, - New treatment methods
- New tests to facilitate accurate diagnoses
- Treatment of individual diseases
●● Overview of the US Healthcare System.
Answer: The healthcare industry is a complex system that provides
services:
- Diagnostic
- Therapeutic
- Preventive
No centralized healthcare delivery system in the United States!
●● Service providers for the US Healthcare System.
Answer: Hospitals, clinics, government and volunteer agencies,
pharmaceutical and medical equipment manufacturers, and private
insurance companies
●● Categories of Healthcare Services.
Answer: - Health promotion
- Disease prevention
- Diagnosis and treatment of illness
- Rehabilitation
- Chronic care
