HCDS Chapters 9-14 continued All comments are due by the end of the day on May 10

20. What are the 2 main objectives of this chapter 12?
21.What are the 3 major cornerstones of health care delivery?
22.What is meant by the term "health care costs"?  Describe the 3 different meaning of the term"cost".
23.Why should the US control the rising cost of health care?
24.Name and describe the 9 major factors to the high costs of health care.
25.What is third party payment/reimbursement?
26.Explain how under imperfect market conditions, both prices and quantities of health care are higher than they would be in a highly competitive market.
27. Discuss price controls and their effectiveness in controlling health care expenditures.
28. What does access to care mean?  What are the implications of access for health and health care delivery?
29.What are some of the implications of the definition of quality proposed by the Institute of Medicine? In what way is the definition incomplete?
30.Discuss the dimensions of quality from the micro- and macro- perspectives.
31.Discuss the main developments in process improvement that have occurred in recent years.
32. What is health policy?  How can health policies be used as regulatory or allocative tools?
33. What are the principle features of the US health policy?  Why do these features characterise US health policy?
34.Identify health care interest groups and their concerns.
35.What is the important decentralized role of the  states?
36. What is the policy of legislative health policy in the US?How is this process related to the principle features of  US health policy?
37.Describe the critical policy issues related to access to care,cost of care and quality of care.
38.What do you think the future of health policy will look like in the US?
39.What are some of the recommendations for making the current health care system more adaptable to address the growing need for chronic care?
40.What is evidence based medicine?