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Answers to the "Health Care Reform Debate IQ?" Quiz
NursingLink
August 21, 2009
Paying attention to the recent debates about health care reform? Curious about how much you really understand? Test your health care reform IQ!
chikalatina8
over 3 years ago
2 comments
how will public option in healthcare influence nurses income?
crsethsmom
over 3 years ago
2 comments
Please note that wording of question #1 differs from the quiz question to the quiz answer and this difference changes the correct answer as well. Medicare is not Medicaid!!!!
pgaede
over 3 years ago
6 comments
I don't really pay enough attention to news, this was quite informational.
rawlandherb21
over 3 years ago
12 comments
You are aware that each time there is a change of admisnistration,our law/policies are always modified.therefore we have to be updated as this world is rapidly changing and confusing to the ordinary folks.
GBPrice
over 3 years ago
108 comments
Guys, the medicaid vs medicare thing was my fault. I fatfingered a copy & paste yesterday evening and it changed the purpose of the question. It's been fixed with apologies!
crbalaska
over 3 years ago
2 comments
MediCARE is for people 65 and older, we pay into this fund all our lives, if we work, and are entitled to it. MedicAID, on the other hand is for low income people, or people who don't work.
This is a quiz on the proposal (which isn't even written yet, nor read by many of the congressional representatives) not healthcare as it is now, right?
kpmeehan
over 3 years ago
2 comments
#1 is incorrect (given the answers available, there are other reasons one can receive medicare), and I'm not sure about #2. I see a couple of folks stating that #8 is incorrect, if it is please let me know what you believe the correct answers given the available questions.
brendabatt
over 3 years ago
4 comments
Overview
"The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) administers Medicare, the nation's largest health insurance program, which covers nearly 40 million Americans. Medicare is a Health Insurance Program for people age 65 or older, some disabled people under age 65, and people of all ages with End-Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure treated with dialysis or a transplant)." Medicare.gov
GENJEN
over 3 years ago
20 comments
1and 8 are incorrect. NursingLink, I think you need to look those up again. Enjoyed the quiz.
brendabatt
over 3 years ago
4 comments
Some of YOUR answers are incorrect!! So, this exactly illustrates how much the public does not know...and how could they, when a site like this professional one doesn't even get the info right?
lucresian
over 3 years ago
4 comments
Sorry Nursing Link, but you are absolutely incorrect on #1, 2 and 8. YOU NEED TO DO MORE RESEARCH!!!!
jginnetti
over 3 years ago
6 comments
The first answer is incorrect. To qualify for Medicare (not Medicaid which is low income) one must be either 65 or older or disabled.
jstromain
over 3 years ago
6 comments
The answer to the first question is posted incorrectly. "Over 65" is the correct answer.
mrbrownrn49
over 3 years ago
68 comments
BTW - thank you for creating and posting this quiz! It is very relevant in todays fight over the health care issue.
mrbrownrn49
over 3 years ago
68 comments
One of these answers is incorrect. Dialysis patients, regardless of income, are given a permanent disability and are placed on Medicare based on that fact alone. I do not know if other conditions allow being placed on Medicare before age 65.
Also you do not have to be low income to qualify for Medicare if you are 65 or older as I know doctors who applied for and received Medicare when they retired.