HLTA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Knowledge Translation, New Approach, Canada Health Act

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Chapter 2: health care and health reforms trends and issues. Other main dimension of perpetual crisis is whether medicare has the capacity to satisfy existing and emerging health care need of canadian: epidemiological shift taking place (aging of population, changing lifestyles, and climate) Also lack of transparency and accountability of health care policy makers, system managers, and service providers. Key features: establishment of health regions, patient registration with physicians, a capitation mode of payment, financial incentives for physicians to adopt preventative approaches - this proposed legislation was not enacted. In 1962, saskatchewan government introduced the country"s first publicly financed and administered medical insurance system: first step occurred in 1948 with the introduction of hospital construction grants. Regionalization is intended to accomplish several health policy objectives including cost control, increased responsiveness to health care needs, improved health outcomes, flexibility in care delivery, etc. A new approach to health care reform and renewal.

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1. Medicare administrative costs are approximately $500 per year per person covered by Medicare. This is about 4.5% of the total annual health care expenses covered by Medicare. U.S. private health insurance administration costs are approximately $490 per year per person covered by private health insurance, about 8.5% of the total annual health care expenses covered by private insurers.

Consider a proposal under which everyone in the U.S. who currently has private health insurance would be offered Medicare insurance in the same way that people over age 65 receive it. What do you expect would be the effect on Medicare administration cost per person covered by Medicare? Would it rise? Fall? Stay about the same? Explain carefully what you base your prediction on. In answering, try to think what insurance administration costs are mostly related to. Are they proportional to the number of people covered? Do they also depend on the number of treatments the people receive? To answer this question, what are the most important differences between people currently covered by Medicare and other people who have private health insurance?

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1.Choose the correct statement.

A.Adverse selection arises in health insurance because some of the healthiest people choose to beâ uninsured, at least during their younger years.

B.Moral hazard arises in health insurance because onceâ insured, a person has less incentive to adopt a healthy lifestyle.

C.In the market for healthâ insurance, the buyers have private information and in the market for healthâ care, the sellers have private information.

D.All of the above are correct.

2.Choose the statement that is incorrect.

A.93 million people are covered by Medicare and Medicaid.

B.The government spendsâ $10,387 per person per year on Medicare and Medicaid.

C.About 48 million people limit theirâ health-care costs by using an HMO.

D.The cost of private insurance per person covered is 46 percent of the cost of the government programs.

3.Without knowledge about driverâ types, there isâ _______ equilibrium in the market for car insurance.

A.a pooling

B.an unfair

C.an asymmetric

D.a separating

1.Using the population health model, list and describe various determinants of the social and physical environmental domains that contribute to obesity

2.How does the U.S. compare with other countries in terms of access to services across income groups?

3.Opponents of a universal coverage health care system in the U.S. have expressed concern that a move to such a system would result in runaway costs. How do nations with universal coverage fare in terms of health care costs relative to the U.S.? How does universal coverage affect cost?

4. Why did some oppose comprehensive health reform legislation in 2009 and 2010?

5. How does the region of the United States in which one lives affect the quality of health care one has access to? What are the reasons for this? Provide an example of this disparity

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