GMAT - Verbal Training: Reading Comprehension

Im GMAT müssen mathematische und sprachliche Aufgaben gelöst werden. Der Bereich Reading Comprehension macht ungefähr ein Drittel der Verbal-Fragen aus. Es handelt es sich um eine Schnellleseübung mit Fragen. Es wird unter anderem getestet, ob der Teilnehmer in der Lage ist, den Text schnell zu erfassen, zu analysieren und Rückschlüsse zu ziehen.

Reading Comprehension - Aufgabe 1

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In 1990, a Harvard Medical Practice study came to the conclusion that ninety-five thousand deaths a year in the United States are attributable to medical malpractice. Not surprisingly, an additional several hundred thousand individuals are subject to injury as a result of medical malpractice. These numbers can jar even the dispassionate observer. A jumbo jet would have to crash every day for a year to reproduce these casualties. Despite the multitudes of people who die or suffer as a result of medical malpractice, fewer than 2100 doctors a year are disciplined in connection with a malpractice claim. Of those providers that do come under scrutiny and censure, the lion’s share of them are subject to sanctions on the premises of substance abuse or fraud, rather than malpractice. These facts resurface at a time when federal legislators are considering measures to limit the monetary amount a patient can claim as compensation for damages incurred as a result of medical malpractice. It is the hope of lawmakers in capping Jury awards to plaintiffs that it may be possible to reverse the tide of rising health care costs. Since those costs are ultimately imposed on patients in the form of insurance premiums, the reigning logic dictates that limits on awards will save the patient money, and bring the cost of high quality healthcare within the reach of more Americans.

However, the soundness of this approach is called into question when we consider that a Congressional Budget Office report found only one percent of national health care costs results from the expense of malpractice insurance premiums being passed on to the patient. However, accidents, misdiagnosis and conflicting prescriptions cost the nation nearly sixty billion dollars a year. Even with these losses imposed on patients and on taxpayers yearly, less than half a percent of all civil cases in state courts sought to charge doctors with medical malpractice. The 2000 plus doctors who are disciplined each year amount to hardly one percent of all acting providers. Thus the amount of money going back into the hands of victims is a relatively inconsequential contribution to the overall cost of health care in America when compared to the cost of making good the harm of malpractice. Rising health care costs more predictably be driven back by improving the way in which the health care industry polices itself and removes unreliable doctors from practice.

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