Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Hard

PT5 S3 Q18 Explanation

Dr. Schilling: Those who advocate

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TopicsAgree/Disagree

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Stimulus

Dr. Schilling: Those who advocate replacing my country’s private health insurance system with nationalized health insurance because of the rising costs of medical care fail to consider the high human costs that consumers pay in countries with nationalized insurance: access to high–technology medicine is restricted. Kidney transplants are denied their right to treatments they want and need.

Dr. Laforte: Your country’s reliance on private health insurance denies access even to basic, conventional medicine to the many people who cannot afford adequate health coverage. With nationalized insurance, rich and poor have equal access to life-saving medical treatment regardless of income is not violated.

What this question is testing

Agree/Disagree

Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

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The question
18.

Dr. Schilling’s and Dr. Laforte’s statements provide the most support for holding that they would disagree about the truth of which

Answer choices

  1. Correct61% picked this

    People’s rights are violated less when they are denied an available medical treatment they need because they lack the means to pay for it

    Why this is right

    Answer A is correct.

    Skill tested: Agree/Disagree · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

  2. Trap4% picked this

    Where health insurance is provided by private insurance companies, people who are wealthy generally receive better health care than do people who

  3. Trap7% picked this

    In countries that rely primarily on private health insurance to pay for medical costs, most people who would benefit from

  4. Trap24% picked this

    In countries with nationalized health insurance, no one who needs a familiar medical treatment in order to stay

  5. Trap4% picked this

    Anyone who wants a particular medical treatment has a right to

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