"The government should provide health care for all citizens." This statement is an illustration of:
A) positive economic analysis.
B) correlation analysis.
C) fallacy of association analysis.
D) normative economic analysis.

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The statement expresses a normative economic analysis, which involves making value judgments about what the government should or should not do. It implies that providing health care for all citizens is seen as a desirable or necessary goal, rather than just describing an objective fact or relationship (positive analysis) or looking at the association between two variables (correlation analysis). It also does not make a fallacious argument based on an unverified connection between two things (fallacy of association analysis).

"The Government Should Provide Health Care for All Citizens