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Which of the Following Statements Is False

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Which of the following statements is false?


A) Immunizations for children for some diseases have a marginal cost of just pennies. Providing the immunizations for free is explained by the high cost of any possible outbreak of the disease.
B) Diversity of tastes in a society makes it difficult to agree on the amount of public provision of a public good that is socially desirable.
C) Laws concerning whether individuals with mental illness are legally capable of making decisions are generally consistent with laws concerning whether individuals are medically able to make decisions determining their health.
D) It is generally agreed that of the over 600,000 Americans who died in the Civil War, over half of their deaths were due to disease.
E) One of the challenges of free information is that sometimes it may be hard to convince others that certain measures are worth implementing. Examples include the slow implementation of citrus fruit eating to prevent scurvy or the resistance to the work of Florence Nightingale in improving sanitary conditions in field hospitals in the Crimean War.

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