Which of the following is false regarding the Affordable Health Care Act (ACA)?

• After implementation of the federal ACA, the percentage of non-elderly persons in Massachusetts without health care insurance increased significantly
• The ACA mandates that people obtain health care insurance or pay a financial penalty
• the ACA relies on hundreds of private for-profit health insurance companies, the system is complex and administrative costs are high
• The ten states with the highest percentages of residents lacking health care insurance in mid-2014, according to Gallup (2014), all had governments that refused to cooperate fully with the federal ACA

The symbolic-interactionist perspective on the media is especially concerned with

• The symbols, text, sounds, and imagery used in media to convey information and stories to the public and give them meaning.
• How the way news is reported often reflects financial interests and political goals such as promoting support for the U.S. led invasion of Iraq
• The media as a means to facilitate integration and interdependence among the people and institutional components of society
• Inequality in access to media and control over media

Which of the following has been put forward as a negative aspect of globalization?

• As national barriers to freedom of movement and trade have been reduced, the more efficient the global division of labor, manufacturing, and optimal use of resources has become
• Globalization allows corporations to move high-wage economic activities to low-wage, less-developed countries, thus shrinking the middle class in technologically advanced countries
• Costs of manufactured goods have been lowered
• Globalization has helped focus attention on the level of corruption in individual countries and in transnational business operations