Exam 1: Values in Health Policy: Understanding Fairness and Efficiency

A likely outcome of a social insurance program is that ____.

Commercial insurers assert that actuarial fairness requires them to ____.

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 allows insurers to ____.

Commercial insurance is based on what concept?

The CEO of Community Hospital plans to reduce the hours worked by employees in three departments: dietary, housekeeping, and maintenance. The most likely result of this action is a(n)____.

In order to convince smaller drug manufacturers to develop and produce generic versions of MDR-TB drugs, Doctors Farmer and Kim first sought to increase ____ by having the drugs listed on the World Health Organization's essential drugs list.

The ideal of the solidarity principle is that we should strive to distribute medical care according to ____.

Which statement best describes the author's view of efficiency?

Performing all cardiac catheterizations in the region at one hospital represents an example of the ____.

Which statement best describes the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?

There is a risk that efficiency calculations over-emphasize ____.

The efforts of Doctors Paul Farmer and Jim Kim to treat MDR-TB in poor countries demonstrated that the "cost" in cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis is a(n)____.

The first battles over insurance companies' use of actuarial fairness to charge higher rates to certain groups concerned ____.

If doctor productivity is measured as number of patients treated per hour, the most efficient doctor is the one who ____.

In the 1980s, health insurers' advertising campaigns emphasized ____.