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: Treatment for hypertension forestalls certain medical expenses by preventing
: strokes and heart disease. Yet any money so saved amounts to only one-fourth
: of the expenditures required to treat the hypertensive population.
: Therefore, there is no economic justification for preventive treatment for
: hypertension.
: Which of the following, if true, is most damaging to the conclusion above?
問weaken。
主要結論在"therefore"後面:預防高血壓'在經濟上'不划算。
題目告訴我們:
預防治療省的醫療費用 是 預防治療費用 的 1/4
省的錢比費用少所以經濟上不合理。
看完之後發現一時間找不出邏輯上的缺陷。所以直接果斷看選項。
: (A) The many fatal strokes and heart attacks resulting from untreated
: hypertension cause insignificant medical expenditures but large economic
: losses of other sorts.
或許不治療所引發的醫療費用不多,但是可能有其他方面的經濟損失,
比如家庭受影響、失去工作......
這些錢都要算在經濟層面考慮噢,
所以就算醫療費用很少,但是其他經濟損失很大的話,
做預防還是經濟上划算的。
: (B) The cost, per patient, of preventive treatment for hypertension would
: remain constant even if such treatment were instituted on a large scale.
就算scale改變,成本仍然維持constant,省的錢仍然無法超越成本。X
: (C) In matters of health care, economic considerations should ideally not be
: dominant.
本題的結論只考慮經濟層面,C選項直接超出範圍。X
: (D) Effective prevention presupposes early diagnosis, and programs to ensure
: early diagnosis are costly.
說預防包括早期診斷,早期診斷還是costly的,
隱含的意思是預防很貴,那就更不可能經濟划算了。 X
: (E) The net savings in medical resources achieved by some preventive health
: measures are smaller than the net losses attributable to certain other
: measures of this kind.
文章裡沒有把預防跟其他方法做比較,無關。X
: 不懂為什麼答案是(A)
: 這樣理解對嗎? 如果不去treat hypertension的話 會造成其他類別的疾病更大的損失
: 所以去treat hypertension 還是有他的contribution在的
注意economic是指所有金錢損益層面,不只是醫療費用噢。
希望有解決到你的問題。
Dustin
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