Among lower-paid workers, union members are less likely than

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Among lower-paid workers, union members are less likely than non union members to be enrolled in lower-end insurance plans  imposing stricter limits on medical services and requiring doctors to see more patients, and spend  less time with each.

a. imposing stricter limits on medical services and requiring doctors to see more patients, and spend
b. imposing stricter limits on medical services, requiring doctors to see more patients, and spending
c. that impose stricter limits on medical services, require doctors to see more patients, and spend
d. that impose stricter limits on medical services and require doctors to see more patients, spending
e. that impose stricter limits on medical services, requiring doctors to see more patients and spending

GMATT73 · Answer

The doctors, not the non-union members, are spending less time with patients.

laxieqv · Answer

so, what's the OA for this one?!!

...it has been discussed quite a few time but OAs provided in those are conflicting! https://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic ... ers#122404

ak_idc · Answer

For convenience, I am pasting Ritesh's explanation (In the above thread Laxie mentioned OA is C:

 Try breaking the sentence.

Among lower-paid workers, union members are less likely than nonunion members to be enrolled in lower-end insurance plans

it does 3 things.

1. plans THAT impose stricter limits on medical services, 
2. plans THAT require doctors to see more patients, 
3. and plans THAT spend less time with each

in 3rd, what is EACH referring to. I think it should refer to patients. Right.

Now ATLEAST 2 problems with this question. 
1. The plan can not spend time with each. 
2. To be parallel, we need repetition of word THAT after each predicate. Check OG question (many of the dioxins that are uncontrolled and that north americans are exposted to. Choice C, which is wrong in that sentence too because of missing THAT)  


I think D is the answer

anandsebastin · Answer

I thought it was  C , but the explanations make sense and so another one for  D

Raghavender · Answer

OA is D, as GmatPrep says...

gmat_stuff · Answer

late, but agree with D.

"impose stricter limits on medical services" and "require doctors to see more patients" are two seperate charecters and "and" seperates them properly. 

"require doctors to see more patients, spending bla bla bal" - here "," is needed because the second part of the sentence " spending bla bla bla " is connected to ( result of ) "require doctors to see more patients".

ugo_castelo · Answer

Why not E?

D is almost ok, although "spending..." participial phrase has no clear antecedent "doctors" or "plans"

I prefer " E", though is a bit wordy...

tennis1ball · Answer

If it is from GMATPrep, then post your title as GMATPrep questions. Are you silly to ignore the rule of the forum! :roll:

gmat_stuff · Answer

Hmm.. E has problem with "," position. I think E comes out as if "requiring docs to see more patients and spending less time with each patient as two stricter limits imposed". This is not the message implied from original message. Original message is more in the line of saying because of the stricter limits that require docs to see more patients, docs can't spend more time with each patient.

tennis1ball · Answer

E is wrong because requiring and spending become parallel. 
but spending refers to doctor, so it cannot be parallel with requiring.

D is correct as the OA says.

trivikram · Answer

In D how do we know spending is reffering to docs?

that x and that doctors y, spending....

is spending related to docs? how?

bmwhype2 · Answer

Among lower-paid workers, union members are less likely than non union members to be enrolled in 
 lower-end insurance plans that 
impose  stricter limits on medical services and 
 require   doctors  to see more patients,  spending  less time with each.

vraptor · Answer

(D)

(A)  imposing  stricter limits on medical services and requiring doctors to see more patients, and spend
(B)  imposing  stricter limits on medical services, requiring doctors to see more patients, and spending
(C) that impose stricter limits on medical services,  require  doctors to see more patients, and spend
(D) that impose stricter limits on medical services and require doctors to see more patients, spending
(E) that  impose  stricter limits on medical services,  requiring  doctors to see more patients and spending

Among lower-paid workers, union members are less likely than

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