Pols 403 Self-test Quiz: Final Exam Better Medicine Text

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Pols 403 Self-test Quiz: Final Exam Better Medicine Text - Quiz

These are questions from the Better Medicine textbook that are required readings from after the midterm to the final exam.

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1.

Watson argues that Medicare in Canada will privatize itself by stealth until a “tipping point” occurs and Canadians see the need for changes. This description sounds like:
- A.
  
  Technocracy
- B.
  
  Marxism
- C.
  
  Classical liberalism
- D.
  
  Pluralism
Correct Answer
D. Pluralism
2.

In part, Baxter maintains that the aging population is not a big crisis because:
- A.
  
  New drugs will counteract costs associated with an aging population
- B.
  
  Very few will reach the highest life expectancies that require the most health care
- C.
  
  Canada’s birth rate is slowly increasing
- D.
  
  The pluralist method of the public policy process is being rigorously applied
- E.
  
  None of the above
Correct Answer
B. Very few will reach the highest life expectancies that require the most health care
3.

Zitner and Crowley feel that:
- A.
  
  Efforts to reform Medicare are hindered by too much information
- B.
  
  Efforts to reform Medicare are hindered by a lack of information
- C.
  
  Collection of personal patient information such cannot be accomplished without major privacy breaches
- D.
  
  There is no statistical evidence demonstrating that more information leads to better health administration
Correct Answer
B. Efforts to reform Medicare are hindered by a lack of information
4.

Seeman suggests that waiting lists are used to ration health care. If so, what Canada Health Act principle may be being compromised?
- A.
  
  Portability
- B.
  
  Universality
- C.
  
  Public administration
- D.
  
  Accessibility
- E.
  
  Comprehensiveness
Correct Answer
D. Accessibility
5.

Seeman considers medical technology in health care as:
- A.
  
  Not as preferable to traditional medicine
- B.
  
  Not as important as information technology
- C.
  
  Expensive, but necessary
- D.
  
  Being relatively well available to patients in Canada
- E.
  
  All of the above
Correct Answer
C. Expensive, but necessary
6.

Henderson reviews what he sees as some myths Canadians believe about the health care system in the U.S.A. In short, he thinks we largely think that:
- A.
  
  U.S. health care is overly reform liberal
- B.
  
  U.S. health care is dependent upon pluralist inputs
- C.
  
  U.S. health care is suffering from the lack of a technocratic class in a rugged individualist society
- D.
  
  U.S. health care is overly classical liberal
- E.
  
  None of the above
Correct Answer
D. U.S. health care is overly classical liberal

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Pols 403 Self-test Quiz: Final Exam Better Medicine Text

Watson argues that Medicare in Canada will privatize itself by stealth until a “tipping point” occurs and Canadians see the need for changes. This description sounds like:

In part, Baxter maintains that the aging population is not a big crisis because:

Zitner and Crowley feel that:

Seeman suggests that waiting lists are used to ration health care. If so, what Canada Health Act principle may be being compromised?

Seeman considers medical technology in health care as:

Henderson reviews what he sees as some myths Canadians believe about the health care system in the U.S.A. In short, he thinks we largely think that: