Chapter 8 | Obama Care | Healthcare ethics | The Rescue |
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During what difficult time period did the Blue Cross start to provide benefit plans of prepaid hospital services?
The Great Depression
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Obama first developed a plan almost the same as Clintons and Romney care, True or False?
True
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What is the name of the company that produces a variety of medical devices and tools which grosses double the amount of profit of the tech company Apple?
Medtronic
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What is the name of the government website where folks went to sign up for Obama care?
Healthcare.gov
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What percentage of Americans, as of 2013, paid for health insurance through employment based group health insurance?
54%
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How much did New York raise their premiums to for a family of four?
$15,000 - $25,000
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Which industry is the only one where technological advances have increased costs as opposed to lowering them?
Healthcare
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By what date did all uncovered citizens have to sign up for Obamacare in order to be covered on Jan. 1, 2014?
Dec. 24, 2013
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At any age, what end-stage disease must you have to be able to get benefits from Medicare?
Renal Disease/Kidney Failure
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The Congressional Budge office projected that 16 million Americans who were going to get insurance under the new law by 2019 were going to get it from?
Medicaid
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What is the price of a box of guaze pads on the hospital's "chargemaster"?
$77
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How many states chose not to set up their own state exchanges and had to utilize the federal exchange aka Healthcare.gov?
36
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What public assistance program is considered the "healthcare for the poor?"
Medicaid
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The law had almost been shut down because the Court's controlling opinion ruled that the Commerce Clause did not allow Congress to do what?
Mandate that people buy insurance
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How much did Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc. pay to resolve allegations stating they caused false claims to be filed with Medicare due to their fraudulent pricing and marketing of the antiemetic drug Anzemet?
$190 million
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How many bugs did the tech rescuers repair in getting Healthcare.gov up and running?
400
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As of 2013, what was the price of the USA's national healthcare bill?
$2.9 trillion
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What does the new law require insurance companies to ensure?
Emergency services and requires only that out of network providers be paid what the in network provider would have been paid by the insurer
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By 2007, The US Healthcare system grossed as much costs as this country's Gross Domestic Product?
France
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What was the goal number of Obamacare enrollees that the Obama Administration wanted to reach?
7 million
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