The government wants to make medicare benefits available to more people, but to achieve this goal, it needs to make cuts in the existing medicare budget. the two areas where they are considering cuts are non-essential elective surgery and 6-12 month mental health care programs. applying the concepts of diminishing marginal utility, the budget cuts should be made for spending on: elective surgery due to its lower marginal return ratesmental health therapy due to its higher marginal return rateboth programs, which have the same marginal return rateneither can be compared by measuring marginal utility

Verizon communications, inc., provides the following footnote relating to its leasing activities in its 10-k report. the aggregate minimum rental commitments under noncancelable leases for the periods shown at december 31, 2010, are as follows: years (dollars in millions) capital leases operatingleases 2011 $97 $1,898 2012 74 1,720 2013 70 1,471 2014 54 1,255 2015 42 1,012 thereafter 81 5,277 total minimum 418 $ 12,633 rental commitments less interest and (86) executory costs present value of 332 minimum lease payments less current (75) installments long-term obligation $257 at december 31, 2010 (a) confirm that verizon capitalized its capital leases using a rate of 7.4 %. (b) compute the present value of verizon's operating leases, assuming an 7.4% discount rate and rounding the remaining lease term to 3 decimal places. (use a financial calculator or excel to compute. do not round until your final answers. round each answer to the nearest whole number.)