(Consider This)The PPACA Was Intended to Expand Health Care Coverage

question 108

Multiple Choice

(Consider This) The PPACA was intended to expand health care coverage to all Americans.Which of the following was not one of problems with the law in terms of that goal?

• A) Firms avoided the employer mandate by cutting worker hours to part-time status.
• B) Insurance providers are allowed to deny coverage to those with preexisting conditions.
• C) Many poor workers were ineligible to receive the subsidies necessary to help them fulfill the personal mandate.
• D) States declined to set up the insurance exchanges specified in the act.

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Definitions:

C Fibers

Small-diameter nerve fibers that provide information concerning slow, diffuse, lingering pain.

Unmyelinated

Referring to nerve fibers that lack a myelin sheath, which often results in slower signal transmission compared to myelinated fibers.

Myelinated Afferent

Nerve fibers with a myelin sheath that conduct sensory signals to the central nervous system, often related to proprioception and touch.

A Fibers

Myelinated nerve fibers in the nervous system that are responsible for transmitting sharp, acute pain sensations and other information.