Medical sociologists and economists claim that __________ account(s) for at least 40–50 percent of the annual rise in health care costs in the United States

a. the costs of steadily improving medical technologies
b. the exorbitant salaries of family practitioners
c. the AIDS epidemic
d. the misuse of health insurance benefits


a

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