Premium - answer The amount of money you pay each month to have insurance
Deductible - answer The amount you pay before insurance kicks in
Co-insurance - answer the amount you pay (a percentage) before the insurance
company pays in full
Out of pocket max. - answer The max. amount you will pay in one calendar year
(including co-pay)
Co-pay - answer A flat fee you pay overtime you see a doctor or a therapist
Public hospital - answer doesn’t have to pay taxes, non profit
Private hospital - answer Pays taxes, for profit, sometimes non profit
Non profit - answer if a hospital makes a profit it has to go back into the hospital
IHS - answerResponsible for providing federal health services to American Indians and
Alaska natives
CDC - answerCenters for disease and prevention, department of health and human
services, concerned with cause, spread and control of disease and other issues
FDA - answerFood and Drug administration, looks at your food and makes sure it is
what it says it is
OHSA - answerOccupational safety and health administration, keeps you safe at work
VA - answerVeterans administration, hospitals and other services, care for veterans
NIH - answerNational institute of health, nations research agency, good sources
WHO - answerWorld health organization, international, sponsored by united nations
Barber pole - answersurgeons would treat cataracts and practicing phlebotomy
(bloodletting)
Phlebotomy - answerBloodletting
Caduceus - answerA barber that was a surgeon
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