READ THE ARGUMENT AND ANSWER THE QUESTION THAT FOLLOWS: 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? Select one: O a. The cost, per patient, of preventive treatment for hypertension would remain constant even if such treatment were instituted on a large scale. O b. In matters of health care, economic considerations should ideally not be dominant. O c. Effective prevention presupposes early diagnosis, and programmes to ensure early diagnosis are costly. O d. The many fatal strokes and heart attacks resulting from untreated hypertension cause insignificant medical expenditures but large economic losses of other sorts.
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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?
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