The answer is D. Exposition
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Answer: A) evidential support, such as facts, figures, and statistics.
Explanation: an argument or claim is a statement assertion that something is true. A counterclaim is a statement or an idea that refutes the claim. In the given paragraphs the claim is that the lack of health insurans is a financial burden, to support this claim the author uses evidential support, such as facts, figures, and statistics (for example: "The cost of poor health among uninsured people was almost $125 billion in 2004", "almost 50% of personal bankruptcy filings are due to medical expenses," etc).
Each English Monarch is matched with the religious policy he or she adopted as follows:
Mary I - Restored Catholicism in England.
Henry VIII - Declared the English monarch Supreme Head of the Church.
Edward VI - Made England a purely Protestant nation.
