It is argued that when we enter the marketplace for healthcare we have information asymmetry. Information asymmetry refers to the __________.
a. lack of available information regarding the quality of doctors and hospitals
b. fact that doctors don't give us all the information we need
c. new, patient-centered care that hospitals offer
d. insurance information that is only available to the government
Question 2Global warming theorists predict that up to __________ will be extinct by the turn of the next century.
a. 50 percent of all species
b. 50 percent of currently endangered species
c. 20 percent of animal and plant species
d. 60 percent of the polar bear population
Question 3Why is it misleading to label the homemakerbreadwinner family type that rose to prominence in the United States in the 1950s traditional or ideal, and how have families changed since then?
What will be an ideal response?
Question 4The ACA (Affordable Care Act) was designed to __________.
a. simplifyaccess to private plans for people who don't have provided insurance
b. give everyone free health insurance, paid for by the government
c. allow insurance companies to regulate the cost of all insurance
d. penalize companies for not providing enough insurance
Question 5When a government makes it harder for an investor who, seeking diversification, wishes to move money offshore, it is exercising __________.
a. capital accumulation
b. capital control
c. currency devaluation
d. currency exchange
Question 6What might offset ever-greater carbon emissions, and which is also contributory to these increased emissions because it, too, is a resource that is being overused?
a. forests
b. coral reefs
c. sea ice
d. acid rain
Question 7Sociological research on growing up with same-sex parents demonstrates __________.
a. there are no consequential effects
b. these children are likely to experience gender-deviance
c. that children will fare worse than those in other family types
d. that stereotypes about gay families are true
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