HCISPP · Question #44
The U.S. healthcare system can best be described as:
The correct answer is D. All of the above. Option D is correct because all three descriptors - expensive, fragmented, and market-oriented - accurately characterize the U.S. healthcare system simultaneously, not in isolation. The system is expensive (highest per-capita health spending among developed nations), fragmented…
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The U.S. healthcare system can best be described as:
Options
- AExpensive
- BFragmented
- CMarket-oriented
- DAll of the above
How the community answered
(26 responses)- A4% (1)
- B4% (1)
- C8% (2)
- D85% (22)
Explanation
Option D is correct because all three descriptors - expensive, fragmented, and market-oriented - accurately characterize the U.S. healthcare system simultaneously, not in isolation. The system is expensive (highest per-capita health spending among developed nations), fragmented (a patchwork of Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance, VA, and uninsured gaps with no unified administration), and market-oriented (private insurers and providers compete for profit, unlike single-payer systems elsewhere).
Options A, B, and C aren't wrong - they're each incomplete on their own. Choosing any single one misses that all three properties coexist and reinforce each other; market orientation drives costs up, and fragmentation prevents coordinated cost control.
Memory tip: Think "EFM" - Expensive, Fragmented, Market-driven. If an exam lists all three as choices, the U.S. system is almost always characterized by all of them together, so "All of the above" is the safe pick when every option is individually defensible.
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