Econ Health Exam 2

According to "The Cost Conundrum," the primary cause of McAllen's extreme costs was, very simply,

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According to "The Cost Conundrum," the primary cause of McAllen's extreme costs was, very simply,

The across the-board overuse of medicine

According to the article "Overkill," the Accountable Care Organization WellMed focused on finding patients in Florida and _________, and a later analysis found that the death rates among its patients were __________ of the state's average

While costs at other academic medical centers in the area increased an average of 2.9% a year over the few years prior to 2015, the University of Utah's declined by ________ a year.

Increased medical care may not necessarily increase health because

All of the above

Since 2010, hospital productivity seems to have increased, in large part due to

all of the above

Congressional studies report that Medicare payments fall 11 percent below the cost of treating patients while private insurance patients pay 29 percent more than cost. This phenomenon is called

According to the "Bitter Pill" article, in 2010 MD Anderson, a nonprofit unit of the University of Texas, had an operating profit of about

Every hospital has an internal price list called the _______________.

There is increasing consolidation in the hospital industry, with hospitals buying doctors' practices and other hospitals. This results in less bargaining power and ______________ for insurance companies.

Who is most likely to be charged the highest prices by a hospital?

the uninsured who don't qualify for Medicaid