Recall the Application About the Possibility of Increases in Health-Care

question 57

Multiple Choice

Recall the Application about the possibility of increases in health-care expenditures crowding out consumption or investment spending to answer the following question(s) . In 1950, health-care expenditures in the United States were 5.2 percent of GDP; by 2000, this share had risen to 15.4 percent. Driving these increases were several factors: increasing relative prices of health care compared to other goods, a larger population of the elderly, and increased longevity. Since 1950, the average life span has increased by 1.7 years per decade.
-According to the Application, if increases in health-care expenditures crowd out investment, living standards would

• A) rise in the long run.
• B) fall in the long run.
• C) fall in the short run, but rise again in the long run.
• D) rise in the short run, and fall back to their original level in the long run.

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