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68. Which of the following statements best describes the government's role in health care? a. The government has no role in health care. b. Health care spending varies tremendously, and it is too difficult to determine what percentage of the spending comes from the government. E. Government spending on health care constitutes about 45 percent of the total, d. While Medicare and Medicaid are government programs that provide health care for many who could not otherwise afford it, the amount spent is less than 20 percent of the total spent on health care. Private sources account for more than 95 percent of the total spent on health care. 71. Which of the following statements about the senior citizen population in the United States is true? a. The highest expenditures on health care per capita occur with the older segment of the population. b. The elderly make up a smaller percentage of the total population than 20 years ago. C. Senior citizens do not hold much clout with legislators. . Senior citizens, as a group, have shorter lifespans than in previous decades. e. The elderly consume one-half as much health care per capita as the rest of the population. 72. Medicaid is a joint a. state-local program that provides crisis intervention. b. state-federal program that provides health care based on age and disability. c. public-private partnership that helps cut health care expenditures. d. state-federal program that provides health care based on need. . U.S.-Canadian partnership that is an experiment in national health care. 73 The demand for a good or service rises if at every price people are willing and able to purchase more than they did previously. The reason that the demand for health care has risen is that a. the third-party payment system has increased people's willingness to purchase more. b. the third-party payment system has increased people's ability to purchase more. c. the price of health care has fallen due to technological change. d. the quality of health care has risen. e. the price of health care has fallen while the quality has risen. 74. The aging of the population stimulates the demand for a. luxury vacation cruises. b. real estate in foreign countries where the cost of living is cheaper. C. health care. d. rock music. e. television classics