Which of the following statements is false?
A) One of the intended effects of the health-care reform bills passed in March 2010 was for some people who had health insurance before the reform to choose to become uninsured after health-care reform.
B) One of the provisions of the health-care reform bills passed in March 2010 is that individuals will be fined for not buying insurance.
C) Among the provisions in the health-care reform bills passed in March 2010 is that insurance companies are prohibited from turning down a person with a preexisting disease.
D) One of the objectives of the health-care reform bills passed in March 2010 was to bring more people into the pool of insured persons so that insurance policies would become cheaper.
A
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Assume that the economy begins at full employment. Then something happens that brings on a recession. What could that be?
a. a decline in interest rates b. an increase in govt spending c. a decline in corporate tax rates d. an increase in oil prices
Suppose that Brazil is capital abundant and Chile is natural resource abundant. If timber is natural resource intensive and computers are capital intensive, then according to the Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem, Chile should export goods that
A) intensively use labor input. B) intensively use capital input. C) intensively use natural resources. D) use capital and labor in about equal proportions.
An example of a public good is
A. a joke. B. a book. C. an apple. D. a public utility.
If the rent controlled rent is above the equilibrium, the result will be
A. a surplus of rental apartments. B. that landlords will charge more than the equilibrium rent. C. nothing different than if there were no rent control. D. a shortage of rental apartments.