These Medicaid enrollees account for 50% of all enrollees but only contribute to 20% of the expenditures.

Health care expenditures could be stemmed by focusing on this group of individuals.

The most restrictive form of managed care- enrollees are required to choose a gatekeeper physician, whom they must see to get referrals to specialists.

Whether or not there is an identifiable relationship between an exposure and an outcome or if there is a true mechanism that lead from exposure to outcome.

This percentage of the US population had private health insurance.

Medicare provides funding and care for the elderly, including inpatient and outpatient care. But many 65+ need this type of coverage, not included in Medicare, to adhere the loose fixtures in their mouths.

The financing difference between Medicaid and CHIP.

These type of "catastrophic coverage" health plans began to gain popularity in 2006 and the rate has more than quadrupled since

a patient is given unnecessary treatment for a disease in which they are too far in, this aim for the 21st century health care system would be violated.

The acronym for a national survey that combines physical examinations and interviews, like one which related blood lead levels in children with leaded gasoline.

Medicare and Medicaid were both created via amendments to this legislation.

Wasted spending in health care. Put a number on it.

Health insurance plans that allow subscribers to go to providers outside the network but usually do not reimburse costs at the same level as network providers, combining principles of an HMO and a PPO.

When higher risk individuals buy into a plan designed for lower risk individuals, potentially causing prices to spiral upward and healthy individuals to drop the plan. Information asymmetry is often a contributing factor.

These are four of the main problems associated with employer-sponsored health insurance.

The shiny, new name for Medicare +Choice.

When we talk about health care spending, it is important to distinguish between these two factors since the causes and cures differ.

This organization administers Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

Excessive expenditure due to insurance coverage, in which individuals continue to demand healthcare after the point where marginal benefit falls below marginal cost.

Authoring institution of that tangled, highly fragmented web.

The head of the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees CMS.

The reasons why we have high levels of spending in our health care system.

These are the 5 A's of access.

Bush was trying to prevent this when he issued his directive that states seeking to expand CHIP eligibility thresholds to 250% FPL must establish a one year period without health insurance before they can enroll.

These three acts are key to regulating much of employer-sponsored insurance coverage.