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

1. “There was effectively no recognizable form of health insurance in the 19th century but during the Great Depression of the 1930s someone had to bear the cost of providing health care services to very large numbers of indigent Canadians.” Bliss is describing:

The shift from pluralism to technocracy

The shift from corporatism to pluralism

The shift from reform liberalism to classical liberalism

The shift from classical liberalism to reform liberalism

The first and fourth answers only

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2. “Provincial governments continue to appoint commissions to study the symptoms of Medicare’s decline, but no one dares to study the root causes of the disabled system.” The problem, according to Coffey is:

Adopting European experiments that don’t work in Canada

Allowing privatization in Medicare to grow by stealth

Provincial opposition to Medicare from Quebec meant national support was never forthcoming

The prohibition of private health insurance and private medical and hospital services

None of the above

3. Wente’s article, “On the Front Lines”

Provides a statistics-based review of problems related to public health care

Suggests that insufficient government oversight in health care delivery means poor results

Provides a journalistic, anecdotal overview of some problems related to the delivery and planning of public health care

Implies that little, quick fixes could get Canada’s Medicare system back on track

None of the above

4. Dr. Orovan notes increased health spending, the high cost of medical technology and long waiting times, and reasons that:

The principles of the Canada Health Act should be revisited

The federal government should renew its commitment to being Medicare’s chief defender

Canada should adopt the U.S. health care system

The method of paying doctors is deeply flawed

None of the above

5. “Provincial governments continue to appoint commissions to study the symptoms of Medicare’s decline, but no one dares to study the root causes of the disabled system.” The problem, according to Coffey is:

Gradual privatization in Canada’s health care system

Unaccountable regionalization health boards

The Canada Health principle of publicly administered

The Canada Health principle of universality

Canada’s complicated taxation system stymies innovation

6. McMahon and Zelder feel that MSAs would:

Increase choice

Reduce health spending

Introduce free market principles to public health care

All of the above

The first and second answers only

7. When Michael Bliss talks about how the prevailing attitude in Canada in its early days was that it did not need “old-world” policies, by this he is likely meaning:

That “old-world” means reform liberalism, since the rugged individualistic, classical liberal view was largely dominant in Canada at the time

That “old-world” means classical liberalism, since Canada has always been known for being a country of caring and compassion

That “old-world” means Marxism, since at the time, many European states were becoming communist

That “old-world” means technocracy, since at the time, many European states developed social policies in cooperation with expert stakeholders