The Conservative Perspective of Health Care

question 21

Multiple Choice

The conservative perspective of health care:

• A)rejects the market model entirely and argues for a complete restructuring of health care in America.Such restructuring is necessary to redistribute power over health care planning and provision from the few to the many.
• B)stress the right of all people to adequate health care.They see government as a major enforcer of this right.They also emphasize the importance of consumer participation in health care planning.
• C)calls for an unfettered free-market approach to health care,with no government interference in the provision of services.Individuals,or consumers,would pay for care with their own funds or private insurance.Medical programs would compete freely for consumers' dollars.Adequate health care would be seen as an "economic resource," rather than a right of all citizens
• D)None of the above

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