Of the 2009-2010 Health Care Reform Legislation,a Gallup Poll Found

question 12

Multiple Choice

Of the 2009-2010 health care reform legislation,a Gallup poll found that nearly a third of the public mistakenly believed that the legislation package included

• A)vastly increased funding for Medicaid,the federal health care program for low-income individuals.
• B)government committees that would decide which elderly patients would receive life-saving treatment and which would not.
• C)an elimination of the Medicare program.
• D)government-sponsored health care for illegal immigrants.
• E)a legalization of partial-birth abortions.

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