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March brought crazy attention to Barack Obama’s health law. The Supreme Court heard arguments over its constitutionality. Outsid

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问题     March brought crazy attention to Barack Obama’s health law. The Supreme Court heard arguments over its constitutionality. Outside the court, supporters waved their neatly printed posters and tea-partiers waved their scrawled, angry ones. The arguments centred on Mr. Obama’s mandate to buy insurance. America is the rare Western country without a universal insurance scheme. But, as a new study points out, a lack of insurance is only part of America’s health problem.
    On April 3rd the University of Wisconsin and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a philanthropic outfit, released a new report on health in America’s counties. The report is part of a string of efforts to sort through the mounds of data on health and the factors that affect it. The jumble of information does not reveal a perfectly clear picture. But it begins to illuminate the particular nature of America’s health and why it is so gloomy.
    America, it is often noted, spends more on health care yet has worse results than other rich countries. Its infant-mortality rate, for example, is double that of Sweden, Germany and France(to name only a few). A closer look reveals conflicting trends within America itself. A recent ranking of states’ health, sponsored by the foundation of United Health, America’s biggest insurer, was filled with contradictions. America is making good progress to reduce smoking and the death of infectious disease, yet diabetes rates are climbing and tens of millions remain uninsured. The north-east is a picture of health compared with the South. Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts are among the five healthiest states; Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana are the lowest. Resources vary wildly from one state to another. Massachusetts has 192 primary-care doctors for every 100,000 people; Idaho has just 78. Behaviour is similarly spotty. In Florida whites are 30% more likely to smoke than blacks. In Minnesota the reverse is true.
    The new report takes an even closer look, inspecting data for more than 3,000 counties. The authors, led by Bridget Booske Catlin of the University of Wisconsin, rank each state’s counties according to health outcomes: premature death, poor mental and physical health and low birth weights for babies. Separately, they examine the factors that influence health, such as clinical care, income and behaviour.
    Wide gaps existed within each state. The five least-healthy counties generally had more than twice the teenage birth rate of the five healthiest counties, and more than twice the share of poor children. Within counties, factors seem to contradict one another. In Putnam, New York’s healthiest county, 29% of adults are obese, compared with 28% in the Bronx, New York’s least-healthy county. Putnam also has higher rates of binge drinking—21% compared with 14% in the Bronx. Yet the Bronx has lower education rates, eight times the rate of teen pregnancies and New York’s highest concentration of fast-food restaurants. Lack of insurance, therefore, is only part of the puzzle.
The aim of the report made by University of Wisconsin is to______.
选项 A、stimulate the American people to donate money
B、find out the factors that affect America’s health
C、make clear the gap between cities and counties
D、show the importance of sorting out information
答案B
解析 事实细节题。根据题干定位到第二段。该段第二句提及“该报告是一系列举措中的一项，旨在理清医疗状况档案，探究影响健康的因素”。由此可知，[B]与此相符，故为正确答案。第二段第一句虽提及慈善机构罗伯特一伍德一约翰逊基金会，但其只是该报告的合作发布者，文中并未提及其刺激美国人捐钱，故排除[A]；由第二段第一句“发布了关于美国各城镇健康状况的新报告”可知，该报告不涉及城市的健康状况，故排除[C]；第二段第二、三句虽提及“旨在理清医疗状况档案”和“该报告信息繁杂”等，但是这只是在说明工作的艰巨性，而非其报告的目的，故排除[D]。
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