The twin problems of the U.S. health care industry are:
A. rapidly rising costs and unequal access to health care.
B. declining quality of health care and the duplication of specialized equipment at hospitals.
C. declining per capita spending on health care and the moral hazard problem.
D. the decline in the number of family physicians and the failure to vaccinate children.
Answer: A
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