Medicare
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According to Malone (2001), the United States is considered as the command process influences having a mixed economy based on the level of spending by federal, state, and local governments, one fifth of the goods and services produced in the United States. The command process does not necessarily mean that a government literally orders production of certain amounts of oil, or other goods or services rather a government may use the material incentives of the market process to allocate resources in certain ways.
The government is able to control the monopolies, which are played by the large corporations such as Microsoft. The Microsoft Corporation is a good example. The owner of Microsoft, Bill Gates have enough money to pay off the United States debt and control eighty percent of the computer software business. Gates controls the prices of the computer software by supply and demand of the buyers. This gives society the sense that Bill Gates can increase the price whenever he wants to make extra money and currently Bill Gates is capable of doing just that because there is a huge demand for Microsoft software. The government