HSM 410 Week 4 Midterm Exam

1. (TCO 1) The uninsured are less likely to

2. (TCO 2) What do the health systems of Japan, Germany, Canada, and the United Kingdom have in common?

3. (TCO 3) Regressive payments are ____________.

4. (TCO 4) Which of the following would be considered a painless cost control?

5. (TCO 1) How is health policy formed?

6. (TCO 3) Which of the following are modes of paying for healthcare?

1. (TCO 2) What were the most common medical care structures of the first half of the 20th century?

2. (TCO 4) List the methods of physician payment.

3. (TCO 2) Does an HMO promote the regionalized or dispersed model of care? How?

4. (TCO 4) What does it mean to “transfer financial risk?” Give an example.

5. (TCO 3) Why has cost containment become such a focus of the American public? Give examples of current cost containment measures commonly used.