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khang

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What impact did social and health policy have on the healthcare system in the latter part of the twentieth century?
 
  1. Exploding healthcare costs and the challenges to reform and control them
  2. The majority of healthcare being paid for through government subsidies
  3. Affordable healthcare for all citizens
  4. Healthcare costs decreasing as a result of social and health policy

Question 2

What was the impact of infrastructure on the healthcare industry in the middle of the twentieth century?
 
  1. Development of the foundation for today's costly tests and treatments
  2. Restriction of public immunizations and medications for communicable diseases
  3. Social policy planning for health care expenditures
  4. Decrease of hospital building and local resources for health care



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Answer to Question 1

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Explanation: 1. Social and health policy contributed to rapidly rising health costs with the challenge at the end of the twentieth century to reform healthcare and contain costs.
2. Social and health policies resulted in government subsidizing health care through Medicare and Medicaid, but this was not the majority of healthcare.
3. Affordable healthcare for all citizens was not achieved in the latter part of the twentieth century.
4. Healthcare costs rose, not fell, in the latter part of the twentieth century, in part as a result of social and health policy.

Answer to Question 2

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Explanation: 1. The massive infrastructure buildup of the mid-twentieth century resulted in the building of hospitals, development of vaccines, and the development of resources that enabled tests and treatments to be carried out, which laid the groundwork for today's diagnostic tests and treatments.
2. The development of vaccines led to public immunizations against contagious diseases such as polio.
3. Social planning policy for healthcare expenditures was a feature of the mid-twentieth century.
4. Hospital building increased during this time as a result of the Hill-Burton Act.




khang

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Reply 2 on: Jul 8, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Excellent

 

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