C425 - Healthcare Delivery Systems, Regulations, and Compliance Exams

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C425 - Healthcare Delivery Systems, Regulations, and Compliance This kind of medicine treats the whole person. (Physical, Mental, Spiritual) Relatively severe, episodic (short duration) and often ... treatable Less severe, but long and continuous. Can be controlled but can lead to serious complications 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. Individual responsibility for health. Benefits are based on individual purchasing power. Rationing based on ability to pay. Limited obligation to the collective good. Healthcare viewed as a social resource. Requires active government involvement. Single payer system. Highly controlled by government. Ability to pay is inconsequential to receiving medical care. Right to free medical care. Everyone entitled to basic package of benefits. Three distinct time periods of health care's evolution Quality care and Access to care is very low in - Quality of care is lower than typical but access to care is pretty standard in - Covers only the very poor. Covers all elderly persons, nonelderly disabled persons, and nonelderly persons with end-stage renal disease. [Show More]

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