NUR 431 Week 4 Individual Assignment Entitlement Programs Quiz
NUR 431 Week 4 Individual Assignment Entitlement Programs Quiz Recent
Entitlement Programs Quiz
Directions: Circle the correct answer for each question.
1. All of the following are key issues for the lack of a successful health care system in the United States EXCEPT
1. Economic competition between generations.
2. Abundant state and federal financial reserves.
3. Conflict between consumers and legislators.
4. Large growths in the geriatric populations.
2. Which is the most common method by which the federal government provides healthcare to the elderly?
1. Medicaid
2. Medicare
3. Tricare for Life
4. Veteran’s Administration
3. Medicaid is funded by
1. The federal government.
2. The state government.
3. Both the state and federal government.
4. Private funding sources.
4. To qualify for Medicare, recipients must satisfy all of the following requirements EXCEPT
1. Having American citizenship.
2. Being permanently disabled.
3. Being 65 years or older.
4. Having a short-term disability.
5. In the United States, healthcare insurance is viewed as a
1. Basic right.
2. Purchased service.
3. Fee for service.
4. Personal responsibility.
6. Medicare Part A covers which of the following services?
1. Outpatient services
2. Hospital services
3. Prescription drug coverage
4. Long-term nursing care
7. Medigap insurance policies cover which of the following costs?
1. All health care deductibles
2. All health care costs
3. All co-insurance costs
4. All health care costs remaining after primary coverage
8. In order to offset rising health care costs, it is proposed that the legal age to qualify for Social Security be raised to which age?
1. 65 years old
2. 66 years old
3. 67 years old
4. 68 years old
9. One reason cited for the lack of funding for Social Security is
1. Increasing numbers of eligible patients.
2. Increasing numbers of workers.
3. Increasing numbers of injured workers.
4. Increasing numbers of ineligible patients.
10. Which of the following is true regarding SSI?
1. It stands for social security income.
2. It is the same as disability.
3. It is paid to elderly people of low income based on prior work history.
It stands for supplemental security income.