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by GmatKiss » Sat May 12, 2012 6:14 am
The proposed health care bill would increase government regulation of health insurance, establish standards that would guarantee wider access to people with past health problems and to workers changing jobs who otherwise could be uncovered for months.

(A) establish standards that would guarantee wider access to people with past health problems and to workers changing jobs who
(B) establishing standards that would guarantee wider access to people with past health problems and to workers who are changing jobs and
(C) to establish standards that would guarantee wider access to people with past health problems and to workers who change jobs that
(D) for establishing standards that would guarantee wider access for people with past health problems and workers changing jobs who
(E) for the establishment of standards that would guarantee wider access for people with past health problems and workers who are changing jobs that
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by krishna239455 » Sat May 12, 2012 6:34 am
IMO B:

1. "establishing" is present participle used to modify "health care bill".
2. "to people with past health problems and to workers".....Parallelism

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by vk_vinayak » Sat May 12, 2012 7:45 am
IMO A.

'and' at the end of B doesn't make sense.
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by krishna239455 » Sat May 12, 2012 7:56 am
I think Vinayak is correct.

I did not notice "and" at the end of option "B"

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by krishna239455 » Sat May 12, 2012 8:02 am
But still I think option "A" is not a complete sentence.

The proposed health bill would increase government....., establish standards ........ (to complete this sentence i expect "and" in between or it will be run on senetcne.

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