Which of the Following Is an Individual Mandate in the New

question 37

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an individual mandate in the new the federal government's new national health care program?

• A) Under the new program, the federal government will coordinate the establishment of health insurance exchanges.
• B) Firms with at least 50 employees must either provide health insurance or pay fines when uninsured employees receive tax subsidies to purchase insurance.
• C) A tax rate of 3.8 percent will be assessed on nearly all earnings above $200,000 per year for individuals and above $250,000 per year for married couples.
• D) Nearly all U.S. residents must either purchase health insurance coverage or pay a fine of up to $750 per year for an individual (up to $2,250 per year for a family).

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Definitions:

Highly Significant

A term used in statistical analysis to denote results that vastly exceed the threshold for statistical significance, often suggesting a strong effect or association.

p < .001

p < .001 indicates that the probability of the observed data, or something more extreme, assuming the null hypothesis is true, is less than 0.1%, which is considered highly statistically significant.

Within-group Variability

The measure of how much individual observations in a single group differ from each other in a dataset.

Null Hypothesis

A statement in statistics that assumes there is no significant difference or effect in a given situation, until evidence proves otherwise.