In the United States, health care is viewed as a ______, in contrast to many other developed countries, which consider health care to be a right.

Organizational centralization promotes all of the following phenomena except

a. greater participation by external clienteles in decision making processes. b. managerial control over organization activities. c. internal program consistency. d. accountability for organization actions.

Local governments tend to focus on__________; state governments tend to focus on _________; and the federal government tends to focus on __________.

a. human rights; tax collection; defense b. public protection; national security; goods and services c. informing the public; taxes; national security d. goods and services; being the intermediary; national defense and the transfer function