How do I size up? Quality Money, Money, Everywhere. As organized as our health care system It is not Affordable and Act like they don't Care
100
What is Children's Health Insurance Program?
As one of Obama's first orders of business, he added $33 billion dollars in federal funds over the next four years with this act.
100
What are structure process outcome?
Donabedian's triad for assessing quality.
100
What are the Prices?
Stupid.
100
What is the Affordable Care Act?
This did NOT cause the erosion of employer-sponsored health insurance coverage.
100
What is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act?
The full name of Obamacare.
200
What is reduce adverse selection?
Medicare Part D is voluntary, but penalties apply if you decide to enroll later. What’s the reasoning for these penalties?
200
What are processes?
The key element of quality over which clinicians have the most direct control.
200
What is Part A?
The financing of this Part of Medicare is in Jeopardy!
200
What is an unintended consequence?
The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 required documentation of citizenship status, and as a result of this policy, tens of thousands of low-income citizens have been denied coverage or disenrolled from Medicaid. This is an...
200
What are incentives to cover preventive services, remove cost-sharing for preventive services, payment increases to primary care providers, expansion, etc.
Obamacare affects Medicaid in these three ways.
300
What is 97%?
The top half of the population accounts for approximately this much of health care spending per year?
300
What are life expectancy and infant mortality?
These two measures are used as indicators of the health of a population.
300
What is not worry about quality, not bear financial risk, not focus on improving patient's health.
Salary payments provides this incentive to physicians.
300
What is annual salary of a full-time minimum wage worker?
The equivalent to average annual employer-sponsored health insurance premium (employer + employee contribution) in 2013, valued at $16,351.
300
What are freezing payments to Medicare Advantage, creation of the IPAB, removal of cost sharing for preventive services, ACOs, close donut hole, etc.
Obamacare affects Medicare in these three ways.
400
What is growing at a slower rate (3.9% in 2010!)
The past few years, health care cost growth in the US has been doing this.
400
What is the Hispanic epidemiological paradox?
The fact that Latinos are healthier than expected based on their low income and education is described by this term.
400
What are Medicare and Medicaid?
These two programs pay for almost 50% of health care charges- good things we don't have government involvement in our health care system.
400
What is managed care?
Over 85% of the privately insured and 70% of Medicaid enrollees are in this.
400
What is March 23, 2010?
The date President Barack Obama signed the ACA.
500
What are the statistic must assume actual interaction with the health care system, it must measure something the system can affect, and it must be consistently measured across nations.
What are the three characteristics that a measure of quality of a health care system should possess?
500
Who is Ignaz Semmelweis?
Ultimately dying in an insane asylum in 1865, this man noted the connection between hand washing and reduced postpartum deaths, pushing for data driven action.
500
What is $2.6 trillion and 18%?
In 2010, health care spending was $ and % percent of GDP.
500
What is association not causation?
After Medicare was enacted in 1965, the percent of elderly in poverty dramatically declined. In class, we discussed the simultaneous occurrence of these two events as:
500
What is Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act HCERA?
The PPACA was amended by this piece of legislation.






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