Explain why it is hard to control costs with a fee-for-service health insurance policy

What will be an ideal response?


An ideal response will:
1, Describe a fee-for-service health insurance policy as one in which a policyholder pays an annual premium and is then entitled to have the insurance company pay a certain amount of each medical service obtained during the year.
2, Explain that under this system doctors are paid by the service and are therefore incentivized to order procedures and servicesthat are unnecessary or not worth the expense.

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Implementing a first past the post electoral system would minimize the chance that an extremist candidate might make a viable showing in French presidential election

Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

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The B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League is an example of

a. a public interest group. b. a religious interest group. c. a civil rights group. d. a government interest group. e. a state interest group.

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Our legislative branch consists of two chambers: the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. This arrangement is referred to as

a. congressional redistricting. b. congressional reapportionment. c. the system of checks and balances. d. pro tempore. e. a bicameral legislature.

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