What are the problems resulting from the formation of a medical–industrial complex?
What will be an ideal response?
One problem is that the health-care field is not as subject to the laws of competition and the marketplace, as are other economic realms. Health-care consumers, for example, cannot as readily shop for bargains and are heavily dependent on physicians, who benefit from high health-care expenditures, to tell them what health services they need. Another problem is that health corporations can be tempted to cut back on services, and possibly on necessary health care, in order to increase profits.
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Which of the following statements is true of the U.S. economy during the two decades following World War II?
A. U.S. production of automobiles and steel declined. B. The total national income was unequally distributed to different segments. C. The median annual earnings of full-time workers increased by 25%. D. There was greater global competition in the production of goods as compared to the mid-1970s.
All of the following have contributed to undocumented workers in the United States EXCEPT
A. U.S. employers recruiting laborers, including undocumented workers. B. the border being poorly patrolled and so many workers being able to cross over. C. displaced workers seeking opportunities in the United States. D. many workers staying after the bracero program ended in the 1940s.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Most theorists agree on when the process of globalization began. 2. Immanuel Wallerstein’s contribution to the study of globalization included his five dimensions of global cultural flows. 3. Rising fundamentalism and ethnic conflicts reflect a heterogeneous strong consequence of globalization. 4. Ritzer’s Mcdonaldization draws inspiration from Weber’s iron cage.
Karl Marx described what group as the "proletariat"?
A. the lower class B. the capitalist class C. the working class D. the upper class