LSAT 6 | Section 2 | Logical Reasoning: Q7

LR Question 7 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: High-technology medicine is driving up the nation’s health…

QUESTION TYPE: Weaken – Exception

ANALYSIS: The stimulus told us that increased cataract surgery was largely a choice: more people could afford it. To weaken this argument we will want to show that the number of candidates for cataract surgery has increased. We need alternate explanations that do not depend on people’s ability to pay.

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1. It could be there are simply more people now who need cataract surgery. A larger population allows for this.
2. If this is true then more people will need cataract surgery.
3. Cataract surgery is mostly for old people. If there are more old people then more people will need cataract surgery.
4. This increases the number of people able to pay for cataract surgery. More importantly, it has nothing to do with the price of the surgery. It is the health insurance companies who pay.
5. CORRECT. This tells us nothing about why more people are having cataract surgery.

Recap: The question begins with “High-technology medicine is driving up the nation’s health”. It is a Weaken question. Learn how to master LSAT Weaken questions on the LSAT Logical Reasoning question types page.