The early cost-containment efforts focused on hospitals primarily because hospitals
A. Had very little political power to fight back.
B. Were known to be very wasteful of resources.
C. Were often just hotels for the rich who wanted a rest.
D. Were the largest source of health care expenditures.
ANS: D
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