Mha 707 Exam 3 (Ch 6-8 Special Topic) Qs And As

People buy health insurance {Ans: insure their ability to pay for (and obtain) health care in the event that their health status changes}Cardiology CMS Core Quality Measures {Ans: 30-day readmission rates Death rates Use of Beta-blockers after MI Aspirin, statins prescribed at discharge}free-market ideology {Ans: Tanner "No, we didn't have a 'free market' health-care system before Obamacare. Suggest free-market reforms to our health-care system and critics will inevitably suggest that you want to go back to the flawed system we had before Obamacare. But that system had little to do with a free market. Nearly all health care was subsidized in some way, either directly or indirectly. ...This third-party and even fourth-party payment mechanism insulated consumers from the cost of their health-care choices and drove up both spending and prices".}Lowest 70% of health care utilizers {Ans: account for less than 10% of expenditures.}90% of the NHE {Ans: are for chronic and mental health diseases by cdc}MACRO Equity of care as indicated by chronic disease {Ans: •mortality rates of seniors with supplemental health insurance compared to those with Medicare only [Careful - Are you measuring insurance status or 1) income, or 2) education, or some