Exam 7: Health and Human Services in Texas

Most slaveowners' wealth was bound up in:

The Affordable Care Act of 2010 is better known as _______

Texas officials settled a federal suit over inadequate funding of mental health institutions in 2009 after incriminating _______ surfaced.

State funds (as opposed to federal funds) account for what percentage of total spending on health and human services?

The reformed Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) is now known as Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF). How do the programs differ in intention, design, and administration?

In which big health care program do Texans receive more per enrollee than the national average?

The program to provide health insurance to children in families making too much for Medicaid, but who are still needy, is called _______

In early 1969, newly elected Texas Governor Preston Smith opined that "some people just like to live in slums." Does the Texas political culture help us to understand this comment?

The funding for What proportion of Medicaid spending in Texas comes from state as opposed to federal fundscomes from?:

Who was the author of the prominent New Yorker magazine article based on the Dartmouth study of state variations in Medicare spending per enrollee?

Which of the following Texas governors of the first third of the 20^th century did not campaign for more social services?

The U.S. Department of Agriculture describes people as "food insecure" if they have trouble keeping adequate food on the table. What percentage of Texas households are "food insecure?"

The 2018 Dallas Morning News series on the problems with Texas' Medicaid managed-care system was entitled?:

Most slaveowner wealth was bound up in land rather than in slaves.

What are the plusses and minuses of Texas's decision not to expand its Medicaid program as part of the Obamacare program?

Describe the major differences between Medicare and Medicaid. Who runs them, how are they funded, and who are their clients?

The Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) has been reformed and is now known as _______

Franklin Roosevelt's Texan vice president stood against him for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1940. Who was the Texan?

Since 1970, Texas has had what percent of the number of doctors per 100,000 of population nationally?

In 1843, an English visitor described what Texas institution as "that shell of misery, that great coffin of the unburied dead"?_______