The Main Reasons for Increasing Health Care Benefit Costs Are

question 74

Multiple Choice

The main reasons for increasing health care benefit costs are

• A)increasing use of expensive new drugs, rising drug utilization, and "cost cutting"reductions in provincial health care plans.
• B)"cost cutting"in provincial health care plans and the AIDS epidemic.
• C)psychiatric disabilities and AIDS.
• D)rising drug utilization and expensive new drugs.
• E)increasing workers' compensation claims for occupational illness and expensive new drugs.

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