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Everyone it seems has a health problem. After pouring billions into the National Health Service,British people moan about dirty
Everyone it seems has a health problem. After pouring billions into the National Health Service,British people moan about dirty
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2015-01-09
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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 no where 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 it’s "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 to unveil a reform plan in next week’s state-of the-union address.
America’s health system is unlike any other. The Unite 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. European 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 s pending is wasted.
Then there is the question of state support. Many Americans disapprove of the "socialized 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.
Ford’s announcement of cutting up to 30,000 jobs by 2012 indicates that Ford____.
选项
A、has the biggest health problem of the car industry
B、has made profits from its health-care legacy
C、has accumulated too heavy a health-care burden
D、owes a great deal of debt to its employees
答案
C
解析
有关福特汽车公司的内容在文章的第二段。那么现在看全段,这一段第一句点明了这一段的中心,而福特汽车公司举了一个例子来进行说明,要想知道福特公司到2012年撤消3 000多工作岗位暗示了什么.需要看“soaring bills are squeezing wages.swelling the ranks of the uninsured and pushing huge firmsand perhaps even the government towards bankruptcy”可见,已经积压了太沉重的健康负担。C项最为符合,所以应该选C。
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