Official Explanation
It is important to pay careful attention to the ways in which a speaker qualifies her claims. In this case, the speaker has said only that the great majority of people can get medical care—she does not claim that all can. Thus, built into the claim is the implicit concession that some people may not have access to medical care. Thus, the objector’s response fails to score against the speaker. The speaker could just respond, “Yes, I realize that and that is the reason why I qualified my remarks.”
(A) is incorrect for the only word in the objector’s statement which is the least bit emotional is “poor,” and it seems rather free from emotional overtones here. It would have been a different case had the objector claimed, “There are thousands of poor and starving people who have no place to live. . . . ”
(D) is wrong for two reasons. First, the evidence is really not statistical; it is only numerical. Second, and more important, the evidence, if anything, cuts against the speaker’s claim— not that it does any damage given the speaker’s qualifications but it surely does not strengthen the speaker’s claim.
Finally, inasmuch as the speaker does not offer a cause-effect explanation, (E) must be wrong.
The correct answer is (C).