Moral Hazard - Correct Answer - When the act of insuring an event increases the likelihood that the
event will happen
behaving different when you know someone is taking the risk (induced demand)
Adverse Selection - Correct Answer - the situation in which one party to a transaction takes advantage
of knowing more than the other party to the transaction
the sicker people likely want more insurance, compared to those who are healthy
Pooling of Risk - Correct Answer - Allows individuals to share risk, i.e., insurance companies
National Health Expenditure Accounts (NHEA) - Correct Answer - Provides official estimates of health
care spending in the US. It measures health care consumption and health care investment.
NHEA Benefits - Correct Answer - Comprehensive: includes all major components of health care system
in unified, mutually exclusive, and exhaustive structure
Multidimensional: encompasses expenditures as well as payers
Consistent: applies a common set of definitions that permits longitudinal comparisons
Published by DHHS
Accounts in the NHEA - Correct Answer - National Health Expenditures: NHE
, Health Consumption Expenditures: HCE
Personal Health Care: PHC
National Health Expenditures: NHE - Correct Answer - all health care consumption and investments in
medical structures and equipment and noncommercial health services and biomedical research
NHE - HCE = Amount of investment in the medical sector of economy (buildings, research, equipment)
Health Consumption Expenditures: HCE - Correct Answer - a subset of NHE, includes personal health
care spending, government administration and net cost of private health insurance and public health
activities
Personal Health Care: PHC - Correct Answer - subset of HCE, including all medical goods and service
that's used to diagnose, treat, and prevent health problems of a specific person
How much NHE spent on Health Care? - Correct Answer - $3.49 Trillion
Per capita amount: over $10k
% of GDP: 18%
Buying Power: $1,200 when adjusted by CPI
Largest contributors to the Personal Health Care (PHC) - Correct Answer - hospitalization, physician
services, Rx, other health care goods and services
What accounted for the largest share of NHE? - Correct Answer - Hospital Care: 33% of spending
Professional Services: 20% doctors NHE
Retail Rx: 10.5%
Three Categories of PHC increased as a share of NHE - Correct Answer - Health Residential and Personal
Care: 5.2% of NHE
Net Cost of Private Health Ins: 6.6% of NHE
Home Health Care: 2.8% of NHE
Chronic Disease and Mental Health Diseases in NHE (percentage) - Correct Answer - 90%
Among the top 5% of users account for about half of the spending
Medical Conditions and Parentages on Americans - Correct Answer - 90% of Americans have 1 risk
factor, 52% have 2 or more highest proportion in impoverished and racial/ethnic minorities
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