C425 Healthcare Delivery Systems,
Regulations, and Compliance Question
and Answers
This kind of medicine treats the whole person. (Physical, Mental, Spiritual) -
✔ Holistic
Relatively severe, episodic (short duration) and often treatable -
✔ Acute
Less severe, but long and continuous. Can be controlled but can lead to serious
complications -
✔ Chronic
The market tells us what type of healthcare we need. If a service is not being used,
there will not be a lot of that particular service. -
✔ Market Justice
Individual responsibility for health.
Benefits are based on individual purchasing power.
Rationing based on ability to pay.
Limited obligation to the collective good. -
✔ Market Justice
Healthcare viewed as a social resource.
Requires active government involvement.
Single payer system.
Highly controlled by government. -
✔ Social Justice
Ability to pay is inconsequential to receiving medical care.
Right to free medical care.
Everyone entitled to basic package of benefits. -
✔ Social Justic
Three distinct time periods of health care's evolution -
