2014年華中科技大學考博英語

考試時間 2014年3月22日星期六下午2:00-5:00 原創作者qq 347952582
Passage 72(9/22)
SinceWould War II considerable advances have been made in the area of health-careservices. These include better access to health care (particularly for the poorand minorities), improvements in physical plants, and increased numbers ofphysicians and other health personnel. All have played a part in the recentimprovement in life expectancy. But there is mounting criticism of the largeremaining gaps in access, unbridled cost inflation, the further fragmentationof service, excessive indulgence in wasteful high-technology “gadgeteering,”and a breakdown in doctor-patient relationships. In recent years, proposed panaceas and new programs,small and large, have proliferated at a feverish pace and disappointmentsmultiply at almost the same rate. This has led to an increasedpessimism—“everything has been tried and nothing works”—which sometimes borderson cynicism or even nihilism.