Which of the following is true concerning access to care?
A. Care providers have always donated necessary services to make sure everyone received care.
B. Health care is rationed by the ability to pay.
C. Poverty-stricken patients received care from medical and nursing school students in teaching hospitals.
D. Universal access has always been a component of health care in America.
ANS: B
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