Please Answer all the questions and preferably why the correct answer is correct
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Please Answer all the questions and preferably why the correct answer is correct.
Question 5 (1 point) The concept of medical futility as embodied in law 1.Allows hospital ethics committees in all states to discontinue care for those individuals for whom continued health care is considered to be of no benefit. 2.Is very controversial and has yet not become legal for hospitals anywhere in the U.S. to discontinue care for individuals felt to be beyond hope for continued medical care. 3.Has been enacted in Virginia to allow families of individuals for whom further medical care is considered futile 14 days to transfer the patient to another medical care facility or risk termination of care. 4.Is contrary to the concept of "right to die" laws. 5.None of the above Question 6 (1 point) Which of the following statements regarding health insurance in the U.S. is incorrect? 1.The a insurance 2.Under the A 3.Managed care as utilized by heath insurance companies uses regulatory restraints to reduce health care costs. .T bsence of health care insurance results in a higher risk of death compared with those who have such ffordable Care Act, health care insurance became increasingly available to unemployed individuals. he Affordable Care Act as originally passed was forecast to actually reduce the federal deficit 5.None of the above Question 7 (1 point) Which of the following statements regarding Elizabeth Bouvia is correct? 1.Ms. Bouvia was denied in her decision requesting to stay on tube feedings and subsequently died of malnutrition. 2.Ms. Bouvia was deciared incompetent by the California Court of Appeals and was therefore denied in her request to be removed from tube feedings 3.Ms. Bouvia, in her case requesting the removal of her feeding tube, ultimately did not alter the notion of the rights of the state or physicians in the care of patients. .Ms. Bouvia's case, upon appeai, asserted that it is a constitutionally guaranteed right for competent patients to decide for themselves whether or not to submit to a recommended medical treatment. 5.None of the above Question 8 (1 point) Which one of the following statements regarding Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS) as legislated in the U.S. is correct? 1.PAS is, in the mind of certain writers, a form of voluntary active euthanasia 2.PAS has not been ruled upon by the U.S. Supreme Court. 3.PAS is advocated by the majority of physicians when surveyed in 2008 but generally unpopular among lawyers. 4.PAS has been declared medically ethical by the American Medical Association. 5.None of the aboveExplanation / Answer
5) option B.
Medical futility is a highly controversial topic and though Texas has passed a hearing based on medical utility the US as a whole hasn't passed any such hearing. Medical futility refers to inappropriate application of medical intervention that is unlikely to produce any productive results.
6)Option 4
Health care insurance included many people under it's coverage as fee for the service system was given away. The federal dificit actually increased from 3 to 6 percent after the health insurance policy came into picture.
7) option 4
Elizabeth Bouvia had been alienated from her family and had been entertaining the idea of suicide. She requested the doctors to let her starve to death . On their refusal she filed a case against the doctors for force feeding her against her will.
8) option 2
PAS has been passed in 8 jurisdictions in USA but not by the supreme Court of US.It is still a debated issue and thus hasn't been declared medically ethical by AMA.