Final exam for Devoted Agent
Certification 2024
What is the single biggest health payer in the united states - CORRECT ANSWERprivate health
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The federal government loses _____- by not taxing employes who provide health
insurance benefits to employers. - CORRECT ANSWER-$130 billon
In 2014 approximately ___% of the united states GDP is devoted to health care
expenditures? - CORRECT ANSWER-18%
According to our textbook approximately how many Americans lacked health insurance
in 2012 - CORRECT ANSWER-18
It is estimated that in _____ for the first time in human history, a random patient with a
random disease consulting a doctor at a random stood better than 50-50 chance of
benefiting from the encounter - CORRECT ANSWER-1912
According to Deborah Stone - CORRECT ANSWER-Efficiency is another word for
bargain
In terms of health insurance, the solidarity principle assumes that - CORRECT
ANSWER-Only some of the members of a risk pool will get sick enough to need
expensive health care
Which of these is not a supply-side health policy? - CORRECT ANSWER-co-payments
Which of the following assumptions underlying markets does health care violate? -
CORRECT ANSWER-all of the above
According to Mark Peterson which of the following statements is false - CORRECT
ANSWER-The us congress is typical of legislatures throughout the world
The most important health care effort of his presidency was to lock into place a tax
break to encourage employers to provide workers health insurance - CORRECT
ANSWER-Dwight Eisenhower
In one community,200 persons out of every 1000 has high blood pressure. Here
200/1000 measures - CORRECT ANSWER-prevalence
The teenage fertility rate for New Mexico - CORRECT ANSWER-shows the number of
annual live birth births to women 15-19 in new Mexico
Which president said "there is only one way to deal with congress and that is
continuously, incessantly and without interruption. - CORRECT ANSWER-Lyndan b
johnson
Since 1900 life expectancy in the united states has increased by over 30 years. Which
of the following is correct? - CORRECT ANSWER-both public health and medical care
have contributed to this improvement, but public health has been more important
In the continuum of health services developed by professor larry Gordan, public health
includes - CORRECT ANSWER-environmental health, health promotion, and disease
prevention
Since 1900 life expectancy in the united states has increased by over 30 years. Which
of the following is correct?. - CORRECT ANSWER-both public health and medical care
have contributed to this improvement, but public health has been more important
In the continuum of health services developed by professor larry Gordan, public health
includes - CORRECT ANSWER-environmental health, health promotion, and disease
prevention
The incidence of a disease - CORRECT ANSWER-is the number of persons contracting
a disease during a given point in time per 1000 persons at risk
Who said id go hundred million or a billion on health or education. I don't argue about
that any more than I argue about ladybird buying flour. You got to have coffee and flour
in your house and education and health. - CORRECT ANSWER-Lyndon Baines
Johnson
In 1948 over ___% of American physicians belonged to the American medical
association. - CORRECT ANSWER-70
Who was president when Medicare, Part D was enacted - CORRECT ANSWERGeorge W. bush
According to James morone in introduction, the major reason that the united states is
the only industrial democracy without national health insurance is - CORRECT
ANSWER-policy implementation
Which statement about the hill-burton Act is false? - CORRECT ANSWER-provided a
pilot program for the medicare programs that was implemented nearly two decades later
Over the past four decades, intergovernmental grants for health - CORRECT ANSWERhave grown in importance
The federal hospitals' insurance plan for aged enacted in [Show Less]