WGU C425 - Healthcare Delivery Systems, Regulations, and Compliance Questions and Answers Already Passed

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WGU C425 - Healthcare Delivery Systems, Regulations, and Compliance Questions and Answers Already Passed This kind of medicine treats the whole person. (Physical, Mental, Spiritual) ✔✔Holistic ... Relatively severe, episodic (short duration) and often treatable ✔✔Acute Less severe, but long and continuous. Can be controlled but can lead to serious complications ✔✔Chronic The market tells us what type of healthcare we need. If a service is not being used, there will not be a lot of that particular service. ✔✔Market Justice Individual responsibility for health. Benefits are based on individual purchasing power. Rationing based on ability to pay. Limited obligation to the collective good. ✔✔Market Justice Healthcare viewed as a social resource. Requires active government involvement. Single payer system. Highly controlled by government. ✔✔Social Justice Ability to pay is inconsequential to receiving medical care. Right to free medical care. Everyone entitled to basic package of benefits. ✔✔Social Justic Three distinct time periods of health care's evolution ✔✔-Preindustrial Era -Postindustrial Era -Corporate Era Quality care and Access to care is very low in - ✔✔Rural Areas Quality of care is lower than typical but access to care is pretty standard in - ✔✔Urban Areas Covers only the very poor. ✔✔Medicaid Covers all elderly persons, nonelderly disabled persons, and nonelderly persons with end-stage renal disease. ✔✔Medicare For hospitalization and short-term nursing home stay. Financed through social security taxes. ✔✔Part A Medicare For physician and other outpatient services. Subsidized through general taxes, but participants pay part of the premium costs. ✔✔Part B Medicar [Show More]

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