Describe the size of the U.S. health care industry in financial terms, and discuss the growth in health care expenditures.
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In 2004, Americans spent $1.878 trillion on health care; this was 16 percent of gross domestic product and amounted to $6,280 per capita. Since 1940, the amount spent on health care rose from $4 billion in 1940 to $1,877.6 trillion in 2004; as a percent of gross domestic product, health care spending went from 4 percent in 1940 to 16 percent in 2004.
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Homeostasis refers? to:
A) the tendency of the body to maintain an appropriate internal environment B) extrinsic environmental regulatory factors C) intrinsic environmental regulatory factors D) the? body's ability to regulate the external environment.