[9급 국가직 영어 2007년 12번]

Although industrial countries have made great advances in health care, today their health care systems are experiencing some serious problems.

가. In the United States, for example, nearly $2 billion is spent every day for health care, and this amount is increasing at an annual rate of 12 percent.

나. As a result of these increasing costs, access to good health care is being reduced rather than expanded.

다. By far the most urgent of these problems is financial: medical costs are rising faster than prices in most other areas of the economy.