The United States Is Confronted with Two Significant Problems in Health

question 112

Multiple Choice

The United States is confronted with two significant problems in health care.They are:

• A) health-care cost and how to limit spending on health care.
• B) increasing the demand for health care and decreasing the supply of health care.
• C) the need to build more hospitals and the slow rate of technological change in health care.
• D) all of the above.

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