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5.4Â Â The Debate Over Health Care Policy in the United States 1) By the year 2019, health care’s share of gross domestic product in the United States is projected to A) return to its 1995 level. B) have declined to only 6.5 percent. C) be more than three times as high as it was in 1965. D) reach a level of 75 percent. 2) In the United States, total health care spending per person has been ________, and out-of-pocket spending on health care per person has been ________. A) rising; rising B) rising; falling C) falling; rising D) falling; falling 3) Compared to other high-income countries, health care spending per person in the United States has been A) growing at a faster rate. B) declining at a faster rate. C) growing at approximately the same rate. D) declining at approximately the same rate. 4) Based on the current rate of growth, health care spending as a percentage of GDP through Medicare, Medicaid, and other U.S. government programs is expected to A) stabilize within the next 20 years. B) account for a majority of spending as a percentage of GDP within 5 years. C) slow down during this decade. D) more than double over the next 40 years. 5) The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the payments to settle malpractice lawsuits and the premiums doctors pay for malpractice insurance account for ________ of health care costs in the United States. A) between 20 and 30 percent B) roughly half C) less than 1 percent D) a vast majority 6) Uninsured patients receiving treatments at hospital emergency rooms that could have been provided less expensively at doctor’s offices account for ________ of health care costs in the United States. A) between 1 and 4 percent B) approximately 25 percent C) almost 40 percent D) between 15 and 20 percent 7) Growth in labor productivity in health care has been ________ labor productivity in the economy as a whole. A) approximately equal to B) slightly faster than C) almost twice as fast as D) less than half as fast as 8) Of the following, which has most likely contributed the most to the rapid rise in health care costs in the United States? A) the cost of malpractice insurance B) the cost to treat uninsured patients C) slow growth in labor productivity in health care D) the cost of malpractice lawsuit settlements 9) The aging of the U.S. population has tended to ________ spending on health care, and the development of new drugs and medical equipment has tended to ________ spending on health care. A) increase; increase B) increase; decrease C) decrease; increase D) decrease; decrease 10) In the United States, health care spending on people over age 65 is ________ on people aged 18 to 24. A) one third as much as B) twice as much as C) six times greater than D) forty times greater than