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

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    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

    Correct Answer
    A. U.S. health care is overly classical liberal
  • 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

    Correct Answer
    A. Accessibility
  • 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

    Correct Answer
    A. Efforts to reform Medicare are hindered by a lack of information
  • 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

    Correct Answer
    A. Pluralism
  • 6. 

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

    • New drugs will counteract costs associated with an aging population

    • Very few will reach the highest life expectancies that require the most health care

    • Canada’s birth rate is slowly increasing

    • The pluralist method of the public policy process is being rigorously applied

    • None of the above

    Correct Answer
    A. Very few will reach the highest life expectancies that require the most health care

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