Could money cure sick health-care systems in Britain, which will be the place to look for proof in 2003. The National Health Service (NHS), which offers free health care financed by taxes, is receiving an emergency no-expense-spared injection of cash. By 2007, total health spending in Britain will reach over 9 % of GDP——the same share France had when it was rated the world’s best health service by the World Health Organization in 2000.
The Labor government’s response was not to conduct a fundamental review about how best to reform health care for the 21st century. Rather, it concluded that shortage of money, not the form of financing or provision, was the main problem. In 2002, Gordon Brown, the powerful chancellor of the exchequer, used a review of the NHS’S future financing requirements to reject alternative funding models that would allow patients to sign up with competing insurers and so exercise greater control over their own health care
A. cost-sharing between insurers and patients
B. moderate constraints on medical budgets
C. delivering consumers’ costs to tax-payers
D. generous allocations of money to hospitals
Could money cure sick health-care systems in Britain, which will be the place to look for proof in 2003. The National Health Service (NHS), which offers free health care financed by taxes, is receiving an emergency no-expense-spared injection of cash. By 2007, total health spending in Britain will reach over 9 % of GDP——the same share France had when it was rated the world’s best health service by the World Health Organization in 2000.
The Labor government’s response was not to conduct a fundamental review about how best to reform health care for the 21st century. Rather, it concluded that shortage of money, not the form of financing or provision, was the main problem. In 2002, Gordon Brown, the powerful chancellor of the exchequer, used a review of the NHS’S future financing requirements to reject alternative funding models that would allow patients to sign up with competing insurers and so exercise greater control over their own health care
A. more extravagantly
B. more cautiously
C. more consistently
D. more reasonably
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nations should be well on with the building of huge industrial complexes for the
recycling of waste. The word rubbish could lose its meaning because everything
that goes into the dumps would be made into something useful. Even the most
dangerous and unpleasant wastes would provide energy if nothing else. The latest project is to take a city of around half a million inhabitants and discover exactly what raw materials go into it and what go out. The aim is to find out how much of these raw materials could be provided if a plant for recycling waste were built just outside the city. This plant would recycle not only metal such as steel, lead and copper, but also paper and rubber as well. Another new project is being set up to discover the best ways of sorting and separating the rubbish. W A. to show us a future way of recycling wastes B. to tell the importance of recycling wastes C. to warn people the danger of some wastes D. to introduce a new recycling plant [简答题]money
[填空题]We learn from the passage that the number of Britain’s labor force belonging to trade u- nions is than that of the United States ______.
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If you think you are sick, you are sick no matter what anyone else says. On the other hand, if you have belief in your (21) ,and if he tells you that you’re going to feel better, you (22) will take the case (病症)of Mrs. Brown for example. She was (23) to get to sleep at night. She lacked(缺少) energy and was too (24) during the day even for the simple thing that she used to (25) . Occasional headaches, which were becoming more frequent (频繁的), (26) reading or watching TV. The more she thought about her condition, (27) she felt. (28) ,she went to see her doctor, (29) she had known for years. The doctor listened to her complaints(诉说) and gave her a (30) thorough examination. Then, he said to her," There is (31) seriously wrong with your physical condition, but I (32) the fact that you don’t feel well. I am going to give you some pills(药丸) that should (33) . I want you to take one 我来回答: 提交
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