Chapter 02 Health Care USA Understanding Its Organization and Delivery 8th Edition

Chapter 02 Health Care USA Understanding Its Organization and Delivery 8th Edition

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

Multiple Choice

1. In its early origins in colonial America, the patient/physician relationship can be best characterized as:

1. Interactive and supportive of patient involvement in treatment decisions
2. Complicated in terms of the ways that patients paid for treatment
3. Personal, confidential and simple with payments based on patients’ financial capacity
4. Strict “contracted” arrangements between physicians and patients

Ans.: C

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2. As early as the 19^th century some Americans carried “health insurance” through employers, fraternal orders, guilds, trade associations, unions or commercial insurance companies. However unlike health insurance of today, these insurance policies only provided for:

1. Maternity care
2. Fixed payments to compensate for lost wages due to injury, sickness or disability
3. Job-related injuries
4. Infectious diseases acquired in the workplace

Ans. B

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3. Blue Cross Hospital Insurance, the predominant form of health insurance for decades, was modeled after:

1. Baylor University Hospital’s school teachers plan
2. trade union “sickness” insurance
3. the industrial policies of Metropolitan and Prudential
4. the American Hospital Association policies

Ans:  A

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4. The American Medical Association’s initial reaction to Blue Cross hospital insurance plans suggested that the plans:

1. Would strengthen the quality of hospital care
2. Were unsound and unethical
3. Should be available only to professional workers
4. Would help boost physician income

Ans:  B