Question: The most significant driver of HC costs in America
Answer Options:
a. supply
b. inefficient use of resources
c. price
d. technology
Answer: c. price
Question: Which part of Medicare enrolls members with a plan administered by a Managed Care Organization?
Answer Options:
a. Medicare Part A
b. Medicare Part B
c. Medicare Part C
d. Medicare Part X
Answer: c. Medicare Part C
Question: Which part of Medicare covers acute hospital care?
Answer Options:
a. Medicare Part A
b. Medicare Part B
c. Medicare Part C
d. Medicare Part D, unless disabled
e. The bottom part
Answer: a. Medicare Part A
Question: Medicare was established in 1965 and covers people over age 65 and some people with disabilities.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Copayments are out-of-pocket payments that tend to encourage utilization of health care services.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: False
Question: Which of the following objectives is among the core functions of the World Health Organization?
Answer Options:
a. To act as a leader and a partner on health issues worldwide
b. To establish standards of practice and support and monitor their adoption
c. To advance policy options founded on ethical and evidence-based principles
d. All of the above are WHO objectives
Answer: d. All of the above are WHO objectives
Question: Challenges for primary care in high-income countries such as the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom include
Answer Options:
a. increasing workloads, aging populations, and more complex medical issues.
b. more competition among primary care physicians.
c. more homogeneous primary care teams.
d. lower demand for primary care services and primary healthcare professionals.
Answer: a. increasing workloads, aging populations, and more complex medical issues.
Question: Which of the following statements about China’s healthcare system is true?
Answer Options:
a. The laws governing the healthcare system in China are the Fundamental Health Law and the Hygienic Common Law.
b. There are four government insurance schemes in China aiming to cover the majority of the population.
c. Healthcare is primarily delivered by local governments and hospitals.
d. All of the above are true.
Answer: d. All of the above are true.
Question: According to your text, the bureaucratic nature of the WHO and its perceived slow reaction time undermine its ability to respond in urgent situations.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: The World Health Organization
Answer Options:
a. has the power to quarantine an Ebola outbreak.
b. coordinates immunization campaigns, disaster response efforts, and disease statistical monitoring programs.
c. is supported by taxes paid to it by PHARMA and device manufacturers
d. fines member nations for health and climate violations.
Answer: b. coordinates immunization campaigns, disaster response efforts, and disease statistical monitoring programs.
Question: Physicians in Canada
Answer Options:
a. are pimps and paupers playing pinochle
b. are mostly employed by the federal government
c. almost exclusively work under capitation
d. are mostly independent providers that get paid fee-for-service (FFS)
Answer: d. are mostly independent providers that get paid fee-for-service (FFS)
Question: Canadian Medicare is purchased by the Canadian government from the Medicare in the United States.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: False
Question: Sweden does not suffer from rising costs nor health inequities.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: False
Question: Which of the following is not a contributing factor to the dramatic rise in US healthcare costs?
Answer Options:
a. Ordering tests to avoid malpractice claims rather than sparing scarce resources
b. Inefficiencies in the healthcare system due to variations in practice across locations
c. An emphasis on curing disease instead of preventing it and maintaining wellness
d. Inadequate use of technology delivering care
Answer: d. Inadequate use of technology delivering care
Question: Which of the following statements about Medicaid is not true?
Answer Options:
a. States can establish their own eligibility criteria, benefits, and payments to providers.
b. States can establish and define additional benefits.
c. Medicaid is financed only by the federal government.
d. Medicaid covers low-income elderly and non-elderly individuals.
Answer: c. Medicaid is financed only by the federal government.
Question: Which of the following statements about managed care is not true?
Answer Options:
a. The main roles of primary care providers are managing routine services and making referrals for higher-level care or specialty services.
b. Managed care plans generally use primary care providers as gatekeepers.
c. In a capitation scheme, providers accept discounted fees in exchange for a guaranteed pool of patients or salary.
d. Managed care is currently the most prevalent method of healthcare delivery in the United States.
Answer: c. In a capitation scheme, providers accept discounted fees in exchange for a guaranteed pool of patients or salary.
Question: Regulatory approaches to containing costs would include
Answer Options:
a. control over the number of available providers
b. price controls
c. control over services that are provided
d. All of the above are approaches to cost containment
Answer: d. All of the above are approaches to cost containment
Question: The largest purchaser of health care in the US
Answer Options:
a. are individuals
b. is the government
c. is an elephant in Seattle named “Ted”
d. are private insurers
Answer: b. is the government
Question: About 18% of the money spent on health care in the US goes to the pharmaceutical companies and device manufacturers.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: False
Question: Precision Medicine
Answer Options:
a. is more possible now because the Human Genome has been fully mapped
b. refers to delivering the same care to the right person at the right time
c. exploits genetic variations among people to leverage better more tailored cures
d. Both A and C are correct
e. All of the above answers are correct
Answer: d. Both A and C are correct
Question: Medicare Advantage plans are private plans that provide all of the services included in Medicare Parts A and B.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True