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in 2018, residents of the United States of America spent 17.7% of their gross domestic product on health care (Hartman et al, 2020).

A. Explain the costs of devoting more and more resources to health care expenditures. Provide an example of this concept.

B. What are two basic factors could change national health care expenditures?

C. What factor has been the driving force behind health care expenditure increase over the last few decades; please briefly explain a few additional factors that may be driving the increase in health care expenditures (Hartman et al, 2020).

D. Assume you were asked to reduce health care spending by $200 billion.Using the sectors and funds expended in 2018, as listed in (Hartman et al, 2020)., please list the sectors where you would reduce expenditures and explain why you selected these sectors (if you list multiple sectors please list the funds you plan on reducing for each sector).

E. If you were examining growth in health care expenditures and had to select from an overall number for comparisons (e.g., total sum spent each year by nation) or a per capita number for each year, which number would you prefer? Please explain your answer.

F. Explain the benefits of using health care expenditures as a percentage of a nation's gross domestic product over per capita health care expenditures in comparing health care spending across nations.

G. Do you feel health care expenditures should be controlled even if they are efficient or should providing access and care to all Americans take precedent over the amount of resources devoted to health care? In other words, is there is a limit or a point when health care expenditures should stop? Explain your answer.