While Americans are ambivalent about health care, with some believing health care is a privilege and others believing it is a basic right, how might Americans' current approach be most accurately summarized?
A. Americans should have any health care they can afford to buy, because providing health care is how health care providers earn income for their own families.
B. Health care is a profit-making business, and government should trust in the free market system.
C. The government should assume responsibility for providing basic care to all Americans.
D. The government should provide basic care to those who cannot care for themselves, such as the elderly and the very poor.
ANS: D
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