Exam 9: Health Care Systems and Policy

The challenge for the next decade is to change the U.S. approach to health care from a system based on disease prevention and health promotion to one based on treatment of acute conditions.

Consumer-directed health plans define employer contributions while asking employees to be more responsible for health care decisions and cost-sharing.

Which element is a component of the Affordable Care Act to reform health care?

Under the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), states may target eligible uninsured children by ____.

In 2013, an estimated 80 million people in the U.S. had no health insurance with the majority being older adults.

Health maintenance organizations are designed to make money by ____.

A guide has been developed to implement the nutrition care process using standardized language for nutrition assessment, diagnosis, intervention, and monitoring and evaluation. Labels have been specifically developed for what types of data associated with this process?

The development of patient care protocols includes three steps. What are they?

What best describes one of the challenges to health care reform?

When those without health insurance get sick, they often wind up using ____ when they do need care.

Match the description in the left column with one of the two programs in the right column. The same letter may be used more than once. -​Serves certain pregnant women and infants with family incomes below 133% of the poverty level

A consequence of the prospective payment system is _____.

The International Classification of Diseases was written to guide decision making in areas of moral conflict and to outline the obligations of the practitioner to self, client, society, and the profession.

What best describes how medical nutrition therapy can reduce health costs?

Match the description in the left column with one of the two programs in the right column. The same letter may be used more than once. -​Excludes most prescription drugs, regular dental care, and nursing home care (except skilled nursing care)

Because medicine has its roots in the treatment of acute disease, proposals for changes in medical education have emphasized the need to train physicians to _____.

What trend characterizes the cost-containment efforts of third-party payers to control their own costs?

Dietetics practitioners have voluntarily adopted the Code of Ethics to set forth obligations of the dietetics practitioner to the self, clients, society, and _____.

Traditional fee-for-service plans are provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Public policy is now attempting to direct the medical system toward ____.