Exam 17: The Healthcare System

That __________ is one reason why the poor receive inferior service from the healthcare community.

Giancarlo does not like paying medical bills.He wants a healthcare system very similar to the U.S.Department of Veteran's Affairs based on the __________ model.

__________ U.S.presidents have tried to pass some version of healthcare reform.

Ordering extra tests even though the doctor thinks they are probably unnecessary is an example of __________.

Race is a significant determinant of __________.

According to the World Health Organization,the health system of the United States is ranked __________ in "fairness" among 191 countries in the world.

Since,as the government has confirmed,women were intentionally left out of earlier federally funded medical research,diseases that are more likely to strike women and the treatments that might affect women differently have largely been overlooked.

Regardless of whether you use level of education,annual income,or total family wealth,it is inescapable that __________ is a significant determinate of health in the United States.

The money paid out by insurance companies for healthcare is referred to as a(n)__________,reflecting the contradiction of the profit motive in healthcare.

__________ not only increases the quality of care at private hospitals,which drives up profits and furthers healthcare segregation,it also leads to overcrowding and poorer care at public hospitals.

The decline in the total number of hospitals and hospital beds is in large part the result of lower demand that can be traced to greatly improved preventive healthcare.

__________ was a prominent political tactic used to oppose the Obama healthcare plan.

What have been the consequences of the trend toward for-profit hospitals in the United States?

Patient dumping occurs when __________.

In the National Health Insurance Model,__________.

Prior to the 2010 healthcare reform in the United States,the uninsured __________.

The National Health Insurance Model of care is found in __________.

Tuberculosis is an example of __________,which is especially found among the poor.

The Beveridge Model of healthcare is found in __________.

The number of people diagnosed with AIDS in the United States began to decline primarily because of the expansion of free needle programs for drug addicts.