Should we Ration Health Care for Older Adults?

Older adults account for ____ of healthcare expenditures.

• 1/2

• 1/4

• 1/3

• 2/5

Rationing of health care resources has been occurring for a long time in different countries around the world.

• True

• False

Older adults spend ____ times as more on healthcare than the working age.

• six

• three

• ten

• four

Is chronological age a good predictor of outcomes for medical treatments?

• Yes

• No

What federal health insurance program is for only those who are 65 and older?

• Medicaid

• CHIP

• Group Health Insurance Program

• Medicare

Rationing healthcare for older adults is considered controversial as it has become a question of economics and social justice within our society. 

• False

• True

Which one of these would you consider an ageist viewpoint?

• "You've lived long enough"

• "There's a time to be born and a time to die"

• Age 75 is the natural limit to life

• All of these are correct

Old age is now defined as decline instead of liberation.

• True

• False

Which of these could be the effect of rationing healthcare for older adults?

• Medical erroe

• Decreased quality of life

• Both of these are correct

• Neither of these are correct

Individuals are already rationing themselves to the point that the U.S Healthcare system will not have too.

• False

• True