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Economist:  On average, the emergency treatment for an elderly person for injuries resulting from a fall costs $11,000.  A new therapeutic program can significantly reduce an elderly person's chances of falling.  Though obviously desirable for many reasons, this treatment program will cost $12,500 and thus cannot be justified.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines the conclusion of the argument?

(A) Among elderly people who had followed the program for only a few months, the number of serious falls reported was higher than it was for people who had followed the program for its recommended minimum length of one year.

(B) Falls resulting in serious injuries are less common among elderly people living in nursing homes than they are among elderly people who live alone at home.

(C) A frequent result of injuries sustained in falls is long-term pain, medication for which is not counted among the average per-person costs of emergency treatment for elderly people's injuries from such falls.

(D) The new therapeutic program focuses on therapies other than medication, since overmedication can cause disorientation and hence increase the likelihood that an elderly person will have a serious fall.

(E) A significant portion of the cost of the new therapeutic program is represented by regular visits by health care professionals, the costs of which tend to increase more rapidly than do those of other elements of the program.

正确答案为：C

C是怎么翻译啊？

还有我感觉应该选D啊，为什么D不对啊？

题目类型：问削弱

逻辑过程：
我的想法是：

前提：新治疗方法需要12500元高于原治疗方法11000元。
结论：新治疗方法不建议采用。

削弱方法：割断因果（有果无因），即：因（新治疗方法需要12500元高于原治疗方法11000元）本身不成立。

C选项说：原治疗方法费用并不包括用药费用（medication）即原治疗方法所需费用可能大于11000，这样“前提”可能不成立。

D选项是无关选项，因为它只是说明新治疗方法的特点（focuses on therapies other than medication），未直点逻辑过程中的费用问题。

请大家拍砖。