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

1. Seeman considers medical technology in health care as:

Not as preferable to traditional medicine

Not as important as information technology

Expensive, but necessary

Being relatively well available to patients in Canada

All of the above

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

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2. 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:

U.S. health care is overly reform liberal

U.S. health care is dependent upon pluralist inputs

U.S. health care is suffering from the lack of a technocratic class in a rugged individualist society

U.S. health care is overly classical liberal

None of the above

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

Portability

Universality

Public administration

Accessibility

Comprehensiveness

4. Zitner and Crowley feel that:

Efforts to reform Medicare are hindered by too much information

Efforts to reform Medicare are hindered by a lack of information

Collection of personal patient information such cannot be accomplished without major privacy breaches

There is no statistical evidence demonstrating that more information leads to better health administration

5. 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:

Technocracy

Marxism

Classical liberalism

Pluralism