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Sketchy Health Insurance Corporation (SHIC) is a Virginia-based health insurance company that offers insurance plans in the private health insurance market, on the state health insurance exchange under the ACA, and via Medicare Advantage (Medicare Part C).  It competes with numerous other insurance companies across the state, but SHIC does most of its business in Northern Virginia, where it insures roughly 15% of the population.  Since SHIC knows it can’t grow much more due to the size of its competitors, it focuses on maintaining the market share it has.  The CEO knows that other, larger insurers have approached some of the providers and businesses with which SHIC has an exclusive contract.  To prevent these providers and businesses from moving to another insurance company, the CEO offers to charge the businesses whose employees it covers 10% less for their insurance plans, and pay the providers it contracts with 10% more.  In exchange, the businesses and providers will agree not to move to other insurers for 5 years.  Two large insurance companies that SHIC compete with learn of the arrangement, and file a complaint with the FTC.  The FTC then files a complaint in Federal District Court that SHIC is violating federal antitrust law.  As the judge, would you use the rule of reason OR “per se” violation doctrine to decide the case, and why?  Should SHIC be found in violation of antitrust law, and why or why not? (2-3 sentences)

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When the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Controls were being revised into the current version (i.e., version 8) there were a series of design principles used to help guide the revision process.  One of those principles states that the CIS Controls should help defenders identify the most critical things to do to stop the most important attacks and to avoid the temptation of trying to solve every security problem (that is, avoid ‘good things to do’ or ‘things you could do’).  Which CIS design principle are those statements related to?

Which employee logged into (i.e., accessed) the network, the most times, on weekends (Saturdays and Sundays)?  (Enter the last 5 digits of the employee’s number only – that is, employee number EE076411 should be entered as 76411).

Patricia is a salesperson for a security services company called Star Security and has just submitted a bid to the Texas Department of Licensing to provide security for the boxing re-match of Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson.  Patricia learns that the security contract might be awarded to Star Security or one other security firm.  Patricia contacts the purchasing agent at the Texas Department of Licensing and states that if Star Security is awarded the contract, Patricia will provide the purchasing agent with an all-expense-paid vacation package to some place sick like Tulsa or Little Rock (a Pitch Perfect 2 reference).   What type of fraud is Patricia performing in this situation?

At this time you are to show the camera each page of the work you are submitting and the approved calculator. Each page must be held up individually. (This question must be done last).  

Which type of BFR cuff can occlude 100% arterial flow to determine Limb Occlusion Pressure (LOP)?

The physician would like to give fosphenytoin intravenous bolus for urgent seizure control therapy in accordance to the ESETT trial.  You recommend (assume her ideal body weight = 50 kg):

No matter how you responded to question #66, the surgical team would like to use a benzodiazepine regimen to treat JB’s alcohol withdrawal.  Which of the following is true regarding benzodiazepine use for alcohol withdrawal?

One benefit of BFR is improved muscle hypertrophy. According to the research, how often should BFR be performed to show true hypertrophy gains?