Plan: Wishing to reduce the number of citizens without health insuranc

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Plan: Wishing to reduce the number of citizens without health insurance, the government of Patrio decided last year to run an extensive advertising campaign that targeted young people and which described the importance of choosing and enrolling in a health insurance plan.

Result: The percentage of young people enrolled in a health insurance plan has not increased.

Further information: Most young people in Patrio saw and remembered the advertising. Moreover, surveys revealed that more young people after the campaign believed that it was important to choose and enroll in a health insurance plan.

In light of the further information, which of the following, if true, does most to explain the result that followed implementation of the plan?

A. Most young people in Patrio already were enrolled in a health insurance plan before the advertising campaign began.

B. All young people found it inconvenient to have to choose a plan before enrolling in health insurance.

C. Young people did not learn through the advertising campaign how to choose a plan, and they did not know where else to find that information.

D. Young people increased in number proportionally to other groups in Patrio over the last year.

E. Most young people found the health insurance plans available to be unaffordable.

Dabhishek · Answer

Most young people in Patrio already were enrolled in a health insurance plan before the advertising campaign began. further info says most young ppl get the importance of health insurance AFTER campaign, so not possible All young people found it inconvenient to have to choose a plan before enrolling in health insurance. but they know AFTER...OFS Young people did not learn through the advertising campaign how to choose a plan, and they did not know where else to find that information. not possible if MOST OF THEM remember campaign Young people increased in number proportionally to other groups in Patrio over the last year. opposite Most young people found the health insurance plans available to be unaffordable. most convincing Pls correct me if i'm wrong and a +1 wont hurt if you llllike

Abhishek009 · Answer

With C , the passage talks about   " The importance of choosing and enrolling in a health insurance plan. "  .

In a must be true question our objective must be to choose an answer which directly follows from the stimulus, and I think this is the best possible answer !!

b9n920 · Answer

Hi all,

C seems to be the most probable answer here. But I want to point out something. This is a resolve the paradox question and the paradox is basically:

Plan: Wishing to reduce the  number of citizens without health insurance 
Result: The  percentage of young people  enrolled in a health insurance plan has not increased.

So, we can smell a scope shift here (intended or not). An answer choice that addresses this discrepancy could be a probable answer. D talks about this but fails to provide a proper explanation for 0% increase in young population enrolled in health insurance.

Anybody wants to comment on that?

saikiransomala · Answer

Hi,

The pre-thinking for the argument can be: Even though the campaign has highlighted about the importance of choosing and enrolling for a health insurance, it did not help young people in terms of how to choose.

The steps involved in any process will be getting to know, evaluating and picking the right option. Here the campaign addressed the last 2 steps but failed to throw light on 1st step.

Thus we can pick the option C.

Regards

MK1480 · Answer

"C" is answer!
Remember in paradox questions, the best answer is the one which contains a possible cause of the situation -- which exactly option "C" does! Also, the answer should conform to specifics of stimulus

dominicraj · Answer

I understand that the answer is C but i dont know why I am not convinced.. Maybe someone can help. I chose A.

Reason for choosing A: They did not tell anything about young people being the main target group which is yet to get health insurance(assumption of the question). Hence they might be completely successful in their campaign but still see no improvement.. since most of the youth are already having the health insurance.

Reason for not choosing C: Option C says that the target audience did not know where else to find that info.. But since it is an argument about increasing the percentage and not starting a campaign from scratch... hence there were people who already had health insurance plans.. (means through which we can find out if people were really convinced)

Too much overthinking maybe.

Regards,
Dom.

Regards, Dom.

kanigmat011 · Answer

Among A, C , E which are probable contenders according to me 
C seems best, but don't know reason for rejecting others.

DeepthyK · Answer

Hi All,

In the question it is specified that "extensive advertising campaign that targeted young people and which described the importance of choosing and enrolling in a health insurance plan.".

If the advertisement failed to serve the purpose of choosing, how can we conclude that the advertisement educated the youth regarding enrolling .

Confusion worse confounded

Princ · Answer

daagh  sir
Can you update OA and OE for this question

GMATBusters · Answer

Official Explanation:

Reading the question: There are various pieces to this argument. The question stem orients us, because it tells us to "explain." That means that we'll need a "mystery" with two parts, and that the correct answer will touch on both parts.

Creating a filter: The two pieces of our mystery are 1) the percentage enrolled in the program hasn't increased, even though 2) the campaign appeared to work... Youngsters remembered the advertising. Further, the campaign convinced them of the importance to having a plan. Perhaps there is some other consideration that hasn't been included here, an overlooked problem? We'll look for an "overlooked problem" but above all expect the correct answer to touch on both 1) and 2).

Applying the filter: We'll go out of order. Choice (A) is not an overlooked problem and doesn't connect to 2); it doesn't address why the plan seemed to work. Choice (D) is not an overlooked problem and doesn't connect to 1) or 2). Choices (B), (C), and (E) are all pretty good options. Choice (B) presents an overlooked problem, and it connects to 1). However, it doesn't connect to 2); even if the plan is inconvenient, if the percentage who thought it was important went up, why didn't enrollment go up? They decided that it was important, so they should have done it anyway. So (B) is out. Choice (E) is similar to (B); it presents a disadvantage with the plan, hammering on 1), but fails to connect well to 2). For example, (E) says "most," not "all," so it suggests that some youngsters could afford the plan. Given that fact, even then the percentage enrolled should have gone up somewhat. Finally, choice (C) connects to both 1) and 2). The outreach could appear to work but fail to increase enrollment if the youngsters never learned how to enroll. The correct answer is (C).

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