Pols 403 Self-test Quiz: Final Exam Better Medicine Text
These are questions from the Better Medicine textbook that are required readings from after the midterm to the final exam.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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