Most of the funding for the PPACA will come from fees levied on pharmaceutical companies and health insurance companies. What will be the economic effects of such fees?

What will be an ideal response?


Pharmaceutical companies will increase the prices of drugs. Insurance companies will increase the premiums of healthcare insurance policies. Companies that, by law, must offer group health insurance policies will pass on the higher costs by charging more for goods and services, by requiring employees to pay greater proportions of their insurance benefits, or by laying off workers.

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a. Plants b. Animals c. Synthetics d. All of the above

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Describe the three arches of the foot and list their functions

What will be an ideal response?

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Which one of the following statements about the P wave is TRUE?

A) It represents ventricular depolarization. B) It is a rounded wave appearing after the QRS complex. C) It follows the R wave on normal ECGs. D) It corresponds to atrial depolarization.

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Which waves commonly appear toward the end of Stage N1?

a. sawtooth c. sleep spindles b. delta d. vertex

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