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The Healthcare System Chapters 1-6 Exam 2025 Questions and Answers Why does containment remain an elusive goal in U.S. health services delivery? ....ANSWER ...-A lack of system-wide planning, direction, and coordination leading to a complex and inefficient system. The system as a whole doesn't lend itself to standard budgetary methods of cost control. Individual and corporate entities within a primarily entrepreneurial system seek to manipulate financial incentives to their own advantage without regard to the system as a whole. What are the two main objectives of a health care delivery system? ....ANSWER ...-It must enable all citizens to obtain needed healthcare services. It must ensure that services are cost-effective and meet certain established standards of quality. Name the four basic components of the U.S. health care delivery system. Which role does each play in the delivery of health care? - ....ANSWER ...-Financing- medical services and health care have to be paid for and funded by someone. If someone can't afford services, the delivery of health care is halted. Insurance- protects the insured from financial catastrophe. Regulates payments to providers allowing for delivery of health care. Delivery- you must have providers to deliver health care services. Lack of providers hinder delivery. …FOR STUDENTS ONLY…©️2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED… 1