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Everyone, it seems, has a health problem. After pouring billions into the National Health Service, British people moan about dir
Everyone, it seems, has a health problem. After pouring billions into the National Health Service, British people moan about dir
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2011-03-22
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Everyone, it seems, has a health problem. After pouring billions into the National Health Service, British people moan about dirty hospitals, long waits and wasted money. In Germany the new chancellor, Angela Merkel, is under fire for suggesting changing the financing of its health system. Canada’s new Conservative Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, made a big fuss during the election about reducing the country’s lengthy medical queues. Across the rich world, affluence, ageing and advancing technology are driving up health spending faster than income.
But nowhere has a bigger health problem than America. Soaring medical bills are squeezing wages, swelling the ranks of the uninsured and pushing huge firms and perhaps even the government towards bankruptcy. Ford’s announcement this week that it would cut up to 30,000 jobs by 2012 was as much a sign of its "legacy" health-care costs as of the ills of the car industry. Pushed by polls that show health care is one of his main domestic problems and by forecasts showing that the retiring baby-boomers will crush the government’s finances, George Bush is expected to unveil a reform plan in next week’s state-of-the-union address.
America’s health system is unlike any other. The United States spends 16% of its GDP on health, around twice the rich-country average, equivalent to $ 6,280 for every American each year. Yet it is the only rich country that does not guarantee universal health coverage. Thanks to an accident of history, most Americans receive health insurance through their employer, with the government picking up the bill for the poor and the elderly.
This curious hybrid certainly has its strengths. Americans have more choice than anybody else, and their health-care system is much more innovative. Europeans’ bills could be much higher if American medicine were not doing much of their Research and Development (R&D) for them. But there are also huge weaknesses. The one most often cited—especially by foreigners—is the army of uninsured. Some 46 million Americans do not have cover. In many cases that is out of choice and, if they fall seriously ill, hospitals have to treat them. But it is still deeply unequal. And there are also shocking inefficiencies: by some measures, 30% of American health spending is wasted.
Then there is the question of state support. Many Americans disapprove of the "so-cialized medicine" of Canada and Europe. In fact, even if much of the administration is done privately, around 60% of America’s health-care bill ends up being met by the government. Proportionately, the American state already spends as much on health as the OECD (Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development) average, and that share is set to grow as the baby-boomers run up their Medicare bills and ever more employers avoid providing health-care coverage. America is, in effect, heading towards a version of socialized medicine by default.
Health problems mentioned in the passage include all the following EXCEPT ______.
选项
A、poor hospital conditions in U. K
B、Angela Merkel under attack
C、health financing in Germany
D、long waiting lines in Canada
答案
B
解析
本题为细节题,参见文章第1段,英国、德国、加拿大等国都出现了各种各样的卫生保健问题。文章第1段第3句谈道:In Germany the new chancellor, Angela Merkel, is under fire for suggesting changing the financing of its health system. (德国新总理安吉拉·默克尔因为建议改变德国的卫生系统的融资方案而受到攻击。)选项A、C、D的说法在文中都有提及,选项B,德国总理默克尔受到攻击,这一说法不属于具体的卫生保健问题,而是问题造成的结果,由此可排除选项B。
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