Critics of the United States health care system find fault with all of the following EXCEPT:

Question

Options

• Aits lack of organizational coherence
• Bits tertiary care organization
• Cits over reliance on primary care
• Dits specialist orientation

• B
  4% (1)
• C
  92% (22)
• D
  4% (1)

Explanation

Option C is the exception because critics of the US health care system actually fault it for under-reliance on primary care, not over-reliance - the system is widely seen as skewed toward specialists and high-tech interventions rather than frontline, preventive care. Options A, B, and D each describe real criticisms: the system lacks organizational coherence due to its fragmented mix of public and private payers (A); it is heavily oriented around costly tertiary (hospital-based, advanced specialty) care rather than community-level services (B); and its specialist orientation drives up costs while leaving primary care underfunded and undersupplied (D). A helpful memory trick: think of the US system as a "specialist-heavy pyramid flipped upside down" - critics want more primary care at the base, so any answer suggesting the US over-uses primary care is the odd one out.

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