Chapter 20: The Health-Care Debate: Best Allocation of Resources for the Best Outcomes

Chapter 20: The Health-Care Debate: Best Allocation of Resources for the Best Outcomes

 

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

 

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

 

MULTIPLE CHOICE

 

1. Identify the most important reason for nurses to be fully informed about the health-care reform debate.

A)	They really do not need to be informed; they just need to do their jobs well.
B)	Nurses can affect the decisions made by legislators.
C)	Health-care policy affects clients, families, communities, and nurses every day.
D)	Nurses must be able to teach clients about the changes in health-care policy to optimize their benefits.

 

 

ANS:  C                    PTS:   1                    DIF:    Medium

TOP:   The Health-Care Debate: Best Allocation of Resources for the Best Outcomes

KEY:  Cognitive Domain: Application | Integrated Process: Planning | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment

 

2. The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) “Future of Nursing” report states: “Effective workforce planning and policy making require better data collection and an improved information infrastructure.” Which of the following initiatives best addresses this directive?

A)	Nursing-sensitive value-based purchasing
B)	The Affordable Care Act
C)	The Children’s Health Insurance Program
D)	Insurance exchanges in each state

 

 

ANS:  A                    PTS:   1                    DIF:    Hard

TOP:   The Health-Care Debate: Best Allocation of Resources for the Best Outcomes

KEY:  Cognitive Domain: Evaluation | Integrated Process: Application | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment

 

3. Identify the president who laid the framework for the Medicare program by his vigorous advocacy of a plan to provide health benefits to the elderly.

A)	George W. Bush
B)	Barack H. Obama
C)	Lyndon B. Johnson
D)	John F. Kennedy

 

 

ANS:  D                    PTS:   1                    DIF:    Medium

TOP:   The Health-Care Debate: Best Allocation of Resources for the Best Outcomes

KEY:  Cognitive Domain: Application | Integrated Process: Planning | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment

 

4. What was the original purpose of health insurance?

A)	Provide health care for the poor and homeless.
B)	Share the risk across a large group so that health care could be provided when needed.
C)	Prevent hospitals and physicians from offering nonprofit private insurance plans.
D)	Develop a large industry that would employ many people when the economy was in decline.

 

 

ANS:  B                    PTS:   1                    DIF:    Medium

TOP:   The Health-Care Debate: Best Allocation of Resources for the Best Outcomes

KEY:  Cognitive Domain: Application | Integrated Process: Problem Identification | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment

 

5. Why do commercial for-profit insurance companies prefer using the experience rated system for selecting their clients?

A)	It provides for a larger group of clients across a geographic area.
B)	It costs clients less than the community rated insurance system does.
C)	It does not depend on how much a specific individual or group will have to spend on medical care.
D)	It sets low premiums for special organizations that have primarily young healthy employees.

 

 

ANS:  D                    PTS:   1                    DIF:    Hard

TOP:   The Health-Care Debate: Best Allocation of Resources for the Best Outcomes

KEY:  Cognitive Domain: Application | Integrated Process: Judgment | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment