1. Which statement is accurate regarding business attitudes towards President Obama's proposed health care reform?
Select one:
a.Several smaller business groups came out in favor of employer mandates.
b.All business groups vehemently opposed the employer mandate and public option.
c.More than half of business owners thought the law should apply to all employers regardless of size.
d.Large employers favored the public option as a means to reduce their health insurance costs.

2. Overall, in comparison to the national health care or insurance systems in other countries, the Affordable Care Act is ____.
Select one:
a.strong on cost control but weak on social sharing
b.much more stable
c.much more fragile
d.strong on administrative efficiency but weak on concentration of payer power

3. The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 required that ____.
Select one:
a.any labels applied to drugs be accurate
b.all labels and contents be pre-approved by the Bureau of Chemistry
c.all drugs be labeled
d.all therapeutic claims be accurately described on labels

4. Attitudes are fundamentally based on ____.
Select one:
a.comparisons
b.knowledge
c.misinformation
d.the reality of people's experiences
5. In 1992, in the case of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, the Supreme Court ____.
Select one:
a.modified the right to privacy in the first trimester to allow for increased state involvement
b.modified the right to privacy in the third trimester to reduce state involvement
c.overturned in full its decision in Roe v. Wade
d.reaffirmed in full its decision in Roe v. Wade

6. In later years, state officials argued that the main cost-saving mechanism of the OHP had all along been ____.
Select one:
a.the use of fee-for-service health care delivery
b.the use of managed care
c.the "play or pay" option
d.rationing pursuant to the list

7. Which statement best describes employer-provided health insurance under the Affordable Care Act?
Select one:
a.Individual employers have increased leverage to get better deals from insurers.
b.Employer-sponsored benefits packages will be increasingly standardized.
c.Individual employers will no longer need to adjust the benefits packages they sponsor to control spending.
d.Each employer individually must battle the insurers and medical providers over costs.

8. Which statement is accurate regarding the culture of the child health community?
Select one:
a.Its role is simplified by the lack of adult health issues, such as drug and alcohol abuse and sexually transmitted diseases.
b.It has always integrated public health and prevention strategies with acute medical care more successfully than other areas of medicine.
c.It is too fragmented among providers and agencies to ever provide adequate health care.
d.It focuses on cutting edge acute medical care solutions to problems of poverty.



9. The relative importance of each decision heuristic tends to shift as issues evolve over time. Often the last to become salient is ____.
Select one:
a.comparison by metaphor
b.categorization
c.substitution
d.comparison by analogy

10. Which statement reflects a common factor across nations in health politics?
Select one:
a.Reducing hospital stays is an important cost-control measure.
b.The menu of cost-control ideas is pretty similar across disciplines.
c.Physicians generally prefer to be part of large, integrated group practices.
d.Health care professionals agree that market-based solutions provide the best health outcomes.

11. Better-informed citizens tend to treat health problems as ____.
Select one:
a.a matter of personal choice and responsibility
b.an area of contested attribution of causal responsibility
c.outside the individual's control
d.dependent on distributional justice

12. What is "the monster that ate the states"?
Select one:
a.the costs of education
b.national health insurance
c.the Medicare program
d.the Medicaid program