HSM 410 Week 4: health insurance and health

Midterm Page 1 1. (TCO 1) Which statement most accurately describes the relationship between health insurance and health? 2. (TCO 2) Which of the following are stakeholders in health care policy? 3. (TCO 3) Proportional payments are ________________. 4. (TCO 4) Which of the following is an effective cost control mechanism? 5. (TCO 1) How is Health Policy Formed? 6. (TCO 3) Which of the following are modes of paying for health care? Page 2 1. (TCO 2) What were the most common medical care structures of the first half of the twentieth century? 2. (TCO 4) List the methods of physician payment. 3. (TCO 2) What are the three models of organizing care? Provide a brief description of the care provided at each level. 4. (TCO 4) What is the concept of patient cost sharing? Is it painless form of cost control? For whom? 5. (TCO 3) Describe why private health insurance coverage has decreased over the past decades, creating the uninsured/under insured crisis? Who are the uninsured?