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U.S Health Care Systems Ch 1-3 Review 2025 Questions and Answers Of the levels of prevention associated with the natural history of disease, primary prevention refers to: - ....ANSWER ...-Health promotion and specific protection Americans spend billions of dollars each year on alternative and complementary therapies. This trend has caused: - ....ANSWER ...-many private insurers and Medicare and Medicaid to provide benefit coverage for certain treatments. The service priorities of the US health care system reflect America's fascination with dramatic high-tech medicine. As a result: - ....ANSWER ...-little of the health care dollar is spent on prevention. Long term care needs of older, chronically ill Americans pose a particular delivery system challenge because: - ....ANSWER ...-Neither Medicare nor private insurance support ongoing, non-acute services. The trio of persistent concerns about the health care system are: - ....ANSWER ...- Access, quality, and cost In the past, patient behaviors within the health care delivery system were formed from the authoritarian positions of better-educated providers who expected patients to be compliant and grateful. Today, health care providers and consumers ....ANSWER ...-encourage more proactive roles for patients' participation in health care decisions with "shared decision-making". …FOR STUDENTS ONLY…©️2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED… 1