Deck 11: Social Services

Question 1

When was the US Department of Health, Education & Welfare created?

A) 1900
B) 1924
C) 1940
D) 1945
E) 1953

Answer 1

E
Explanation: Its creation acknowledged national responsibility for and the importance of social services.

Question 2

Which group was the 1965 Medicare program aimed at?

A) Children
B) People over 65
C) War veterans
D) Unemployed persons
E) Health service employees

Answer 2

B
Explanation: It covers much of the cost of medical care for people over 65 and the disabled.

Question 3

When was the federal Aid to Families with Dependent Children program established?

A) Was set up in 1944
B) Was set up in 1964
C) Was set up in 1996
D) Was abolished in 1996
E) Was massively increased in 1996

Answer 3

D
Explanation: This federal program of aid poor families was replaced by a new program called Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF)

Question 4

Roughly how many Americans live below the poverty line?

A) 5 percent
B) More than 20 percent
C) Less than 2 percent
D) 7.5 percent
E) Between 10 and 15 percent

Question 5

What percentage of Americans had no private sector health insurance coverage when ACA was passed in 2010?

A) 5 percent
B) 25 percent
C) 50 percent
D) 16.6 percent
E) none

Question 6

What provision of the Affordable Care Act (2010) did the Trump administration repeal?

A) Obamacare
B) The individual mandate
C) The employer mandate
D) Insurance exchanges
E) Medicaid

Question 7

What percentage of the Gross Domestic Product is spent on healthcare in the US?

A) 12.2 percent
B) 17.7 percent
C) 22.3 percent
D) 9.7 percent
E) Less than 5 percent

Question 8

How many Americans lost the health insurance coverage due to the COVID 19 pandemic?

A) About 10 million
B) 4 million
C) 22 million
D) 17.5 million
E) No one knows

Question 9

What landmark reform package laid the groundwork for American social services?

A) The Affordable Care Act
B) The Works Progress Administration
C) The New Deal
D) The War on Poverty
E) The Social Security Act

Question 10

What was the median purchase price of a home in 2019?

A) $226,800
B) $92,300
C) $133.700
D) $300,000
E) $198,000

Question 11

What is the chief function of the Department of Housing and Urban Development?

A) Slum clearance
B) Financing house construction
C) Building houses in urban areas
D) Developing inner city areas
E) Providing funding for building homes for low-income and needy people

Question 12

The number of vacant houses outnumbers homeless people in the U.S. by how much?

A) Five-fold
B) There are twice as many houses
C) There an equal number of empty houses
D) Three and a half times
E) Ten fold

Question 13

What is the "employer mandate" in terms of the Affordable Care Act?

A) Companies with more than 50 employees mist provide insurance coverage
B) Individuals must have insurance coverage
C) Medicaid benefits will be extended to all employees
D) Employers must require their employees to wear face-coverings
E) An employer must provide comprehensive health insurance free of charge to their employees

Question 14

Critically discuss the provision of healthcare in the US and the effects of the ACA. In your view, will the ACA improve healthcare provision for Americans?

Question 15

Explain what is meant by Social Security and discuss its present state and possible future.

Question 16

What categories of persons are most likely to be poor in US society and therefore to require assistance of various kinds? How do race and gender factor into this?

Question 17

Is the kind of healthcare people receive based in any way on their previous occupations? What implications does loss of employment have for healthcare?