Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The public sector composes a smaller proportion of total health-related expenditures in the United States, compared to most other industrialized democracies.
2. The American health-care system is primarily a private health-care system.
3. The United States spends a much larger proportion of its economic resources (as measured by gross domestic product) on health care than does any other industrialized nation.
4. Surveys of the American public find that Americans want universal access to medical care via large-scale government programs.
5. Despite the existence of several health-care programs, medicine is still not as available to the poor as it is to the more affluent.
1.true
2.false
3.true
4.false
5.true
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