Among the reasons that health care expenditures have grown so rapidly in the United States over the last two decades are all of the following EXCEPT
A) an emphasis on wellness programs and preventive medicine.
B) the aging of the U.S. population.
C) expensive new medical technologies.
D) third-party financing.
A
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A) factor payments. B) profit. C) physical capital. D) capital gains.
Historically, black students have had ______.
a. the same educational opportunities as white students b. inferior educational opportunities to white students c. superior educational opportunities to white students d. different, but equivalent opportunities to white students
The information in the table above gives the 2012 reference base period CPI basket and prices used to construct the CPI for a small nation. It also has the 2013 prices. What is the value of the CPI for 2013?
A) 140 B) 133 C) 100 D) 75
The federal government's fiscal policy (taxing and spending policy) during the 1920s was one in which
(a) the federal budget was in surplus every year. (b) the federal budget exerted a mildly deflationary impact on the economy, tending to slow overall spending in the economy. (c) Parkinson's third law, "expenditures rise to meet income," seemed to hold for the federal government. (d) all of the above applied.