The escalating costs that plague the United States' health care ...

[Frost2351]

The escalating costs that plague the United States' health care system
 
  A) have stabilized in the past five years, but still represent a problem.
  B) are unique to the United States and Canada and do not affect other countries around the world.
  C) are larger problems in European countries than in the United States.
  D) are more serious in the United States, but affect all industrialized countries.

Question 2

The crisis in the U.S. health care system may be summarized as:
 
  A) Too many people require treatment, and there are too few health care professionals.
  B) The health care system has not responded to meet the needs created by changing patterns of illness during the 20th century.
  C) Patients have become reliant on drugs and surgery and are reluctant to change their behaviors to achieve better health.
  D) Lawmakers do not understand the problems faced by the health care system, and the resulting laws that control health care expenditures restrain competition and actually increase costs.

[kardosa007]

Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

B