One of the goals of the Affordable Care Act is to ________.
a. eliminate privatization of health-care services
b. provide health insurance exclusively for people who were not covered under any other insurance programs
c. ensure that all citizens have health insurance so that universal access to the health system would be achieved
d. increase the role played by corporations in deciding the cost and quality of health care provided to insured people
Question 2
Health maintenance organizations (HMOs) differ from other health-care providers in that HMOs ________.
a. employ greater utilization of preventive health care
b. have higher hospitalization rates and perform more unnecessary surgeries
c. are less capable of controlling costs of health-care decisions of doctors and patients
d. are more expensive and provide more specialized care to patients
Skilled nursing facilities provide care for patients requiring longer stays than hospitals allow.
An extended care facility.
Patients of all socioeconomic backgrounds should be given equal care.
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Standard Precautions for the Care of all Patients in All Health Care Settings
Functional foods are being used by some health care professionals