Question

Watch the film money and medicine then answer the question.

Changing behaviors of physicians and patients is necessary to lower costs. Use information from the discussion of C-section rates to discuss why behavior change is necessary and how it can be encouraged.

Answer 1

Question no: 1

1. Rising health care costs threatens the country.
2. Money and medicine, tackles the medical, ethical and financial challenges of health care costs rising.
3. It explores the promising ways to health care expenditures.
4. It improves the overall quality of medical care.
5. It reduces unnecessary medical spending.
6. It explains about the affordable and high quality of care.
7. It explains about the restructuring our health care financing and health care delivery systems to avoid the wastage of health care costs.
8. It explains about the painful end of life treatment choices made by patients and their families, ranging from very aggressive interventions in the ICU to palliative care at home.
9. It also investigates the controversy surrounding diagnostic testing and screening.
10. It challenges the body of work, putting a human face on the current American medicine.

Question no:2

1. In C-section, it encourages the link between the economic incentives and medical decision making during childbirth.
2. In health care rising costs, obstetricians paid more for c-sections.
3. Variety of analyses by economists suggests that incentives affect behavior in many different ways.
4. There is no disparity in the C-section rates between physician mothers and nonphysician mothers when the surgical procedures were scheduled in advance.
5. It involves the interdisciplinary health care teams, patient engagement activities, shared decision making
6. It plays role in cost containment.
7. It depends on the dynamics of physician motivation away from a volume driven financial incentive under fee for service payment