What impact did social and health policy have on the healthcare system in the latter part of the twentieth century?
1. Exploding healthcare costs and the challenges to reform and control them
2. The majority of healthcare being paid for through government subsidies
3. Affordable healthcare for all citizens
4. Healthcare costs decreasing as a result of social and health policy
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Explanation: 1. Social and health policy contributed to rapidly rising health costs with the challenge at the end of the twentieth century to reform healthcare and contain costs.
2. Social and health policies resulted in government subsidizing health care through Medicare and Medicaid, but this was not the majority of healthcare.
3. Affordable healthcare for all citizens was not achieved in the latter part of the twentieth century.
4. Healthcare costs rose, not fell, in the latter part of the twentieth century, in part as a result of social and health policy.
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