The primary source of funding for the Medicare program is from premiums assessed on the elderly population, which is the primary population enrolled in the program. T/F
**practice midterm correct answersF
Nearly 1/2 of expenditures on health care in the US are government financed. T/F correct ...
Health Economics Exam 2
The primary source of funding for the Medicare program is from premiums assessed on the elderly population, which is the primary population enrolled in the program. T/F **practice midterm correct answersF
Nearly 1/2 of expenditures on health care in the US are government financed. T/F correct answersT
the take up rate of insurance among people with good jobs (full time and have lasted longer than a year) has declined in recent years, and this is an important reason for the increase in uninsurance rates over those years. T/F correct answersF. US employers are offering more peripheral (part time) jobs w/o health
insurance and that's what explains rise in uninsurance
in Bismarck countries, even though health insurance is universal, citizens can choose whether or not they are insured. T/F
**practice midterm correct answersF
cost sharing is used to combat moral hazard at the expense of equity. T/F
**practice midterm correct answersT
price rationing helps remove patients who do not really need treatment from queue lines. T/F
**practice midterm correct answersT: high prices discourages those w the least needed treatment from waiting in line
queueing care is never optimal because it increases wait times and provides no concomitant benefit. T/F
**practice exam correct answersF
in employer sponsored health insurance in the US, employers pay the largest share of the costs of health
insurance. T/F correct answersF. Workers pay for their employer based insurance through assessed premiums and lower wages medicare part D, which was implemented in '06, is the federal insurance program for the elderly in the US that provides for prescription drug coverage. T/F correct answersT
in the US medicare program, by statute, the government is not permitted to take cost effectiveness criteria into account when deciding whether to cover new medical technologies. T/F correct answersT
the primary source of funding for the Medicare program is from premiums assessed on the elderly population, which is the primary population enrolled in the program. T/F correct answersF. Primary source is from payroll taxes on the employed population, most of whom are under 65 and not on Medicaid
the imposition of federally mandated maternity benefits had no effect on the mean wages of female workers. T/F correct answersF. Gruber found the law depressed wages of female workers of childbearing age. This is evidence of wage pass through
a primary cause of increasing uninsurance in the US over the past decade is that employers are deciding to stop providing health insurance coverage entirely. T/F correct answersF
barriers to care erected by managed care organizations, such as requiring patients to visit gatekeeper physicians prior to seeking specialist care, can increase consumer welfare. T/F correct answersT
scholars who study managed care organizations tend to pick managed care plans over more traditional health insurance plans. T/F correct answersF
medicaid creates a work disincentive effect even for people currently not working at all. T/F correct answersT
suppose that the state grants medicaid benefits to a worker only if his income is between 5,000 and 10,000 a year. this will not result in a work distincentive b/c those who are not working at all can't receive any benefits. T/F correct answersF. Disincentive effect applies to anyone whose at risk of losing Medicaid if they start working more. Someone working for 9,999 has a major disincentive to take on more work
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