Pols 403 Self-test Quiz: General Questions Final Exam

1. Millions of poor Americans receive their health care coverage from:

Medicare

Medicaid

Their employment benefits package

Their purchase of private insurance

Obama

2. Canada and the United States share this in common when it comes to their health care systems

Both have by and large, a private health care system

Their mutual continuing tradition of support for limited government

Technocratic decision making and planning

A reliance on international sources for funding

That there is no one real national program

3. Which factors are said to be contributing to a health care system sustainability problem given Canada’s aging population:

Immigration, mortality rates, the BC Family Bonus and other tax measures

Over the counter drug availability, fertility rates and migration

Reduced incidence of chronic ailments, migration and immigration patterns

Mortality rates, fertility rates, drugs, migration and immigration

All of the above

4. Waiting times may be legally permitted in Canada:

Since the accessibility principle of the Canada Health Act is tempered by the term “reasonable”

Given Canada’s constitutional division of powers

Because it is difficult for governments to meet all pluralist demands at any given time

As a means to deter individuals needing care from seeking it

All of the above

5. In 2006, provincial health ministers recommended basing drug costs on a citizen’s ability to pay. When a maximum amount is reached, further drug costs would be paid by the federal government. This is similar to:

The Patented Medicine Review Prices Board efforts

Reference-based pricing

BC’s Fair Pharmacare

Generic substitution

None of the above

6. A major obstacle to establishing a national drug plan in Canada might be:

Interprovincial trade agreements

Opposition from the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board

Federalism

Opposition from the poorer provinces

All of the above

7. A patent for a drug:

Allows generic drugs to more easily come on the market

Discourages pharmaceutical companies from investing in further research

Allows multiple pharmaceutical companies to manufacture the same drug

Prevents unsafe drugs from coming on to the market

None of the above

8. Which of the following "provisos" take the edge off of the common assumption that so many millions of Americans are without health insurance in the United States?

Cyclical employment

Charity

Personal choices

All of the above

The first and second responses only

9. Generic substitution of drugs involves _____________ while reference-based pricing of drugs involves ____________.

Drugs copied from patented ones; choosing the brand name drug only

Substitution for a no-name drug; drugs copied from patented ones

Choosing the brand name drug only; substitution for a different drug

Covering no-name drugs; substitution of a similar drug

None of the above

10. Which federal political party promised to help establish care guarantees for wait lists, in 2006?

NDP

Liberal

Conservative

Green

Bloc Quebecois

11. Positions suggesting that an aging population is a coming major health care crisis in Canada:

Erroneously treat all senior citizens as alike given their economic and health status

Precipitated the convening of a First Ministers’ Conference on Aging, in 2004

Was first trumpeted as a problem by Roy Romanow in his report

Inevitably lead to the corresponding recommendation/solution of a national drug agency for all of Canada, to address the matter

All of the above

12. An obstacle for reform of the public health care system of the United States by the Democratic Party in 2009/2010 includes all of the following EXCEPT:

Republican opposition

The nature of U.S. presidential system

Some opposition from Democrats

Abortion

Presidential approval