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Title: Essentials of the U.S. ealth Care System

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Please read each question and select your answer from the choices provided. You must complete all of the questions in order to view your results. At the end of each exam, you have the option to e-mail your results to your instructor.

1: The primary factor that has kept national health care at bay.
	A: Managed care
	B: American beliefs and values
	C: Experience of other countries
	D: Employers

2: Which single factor will dramatically increase health care expenditures starting around 2013?
	A: Medicare prescription drug benefit
	B: Retirement of baby boomers
	C: National health insurance
	D: Managed care's inability to control costs

3: As health insurance reform moves forward, at least initially who is likely to bear an increasing burden of high premiums?
	A: Employers
	B: Providers
	C: Managed care
	D: Employees

4: To lower health insurance premiums what type of a plan will be necessary?
	A: High-deductible
	B: Liberal
	C: Managed
	D: Cost effective

5: Fixed dollar commitment.
	A: Capitation
	B: Health savings account
	C: Defined contribution
	D: Defined benefit

6: A medical savings account is managed by the employee, not by the employer.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

7: These enable individuals in poor health to purchase affordable health insurance.
	A: Health savings accounts
	B: Tax credits
	C: Defined-benefit plans
	D: High-risk pools

8: Assuming that a major health care reform occurs in the U.S., which proposal is the least likely to be adopted?
	A: Single-payer
	B: Play-or-pay
	C: Employer mandates
	D: Managed competition

9: In which program, prospective budgets are used to control national health expenditures?
	A: Single-payer
	B: Play-or-pay
	C: Employer mandates
	D: Managed competition

10: This approach is generally opposed by small businesses.
	A: Single-payer
	B: Play-or-pay
	C: Employer mandates
	D: Managed competition

11: Since most infectious diseases have now been conquered, the health care system must pay particular attention to chronic disease management.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

12: Globalization has increased the threat of deadly infectious diseases in the United States.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

13: Medical graduate who pursue residencies in primary care continues to increase.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

14: The demand for nurse practitioners has slowed down.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

15: Working in a managed care organization is particularly appealing to female physicians.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

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