Tag: price discrimination

Do you think price discrimination through coupons is fair? Should there be laws against this behavior? Why or why not?

One method of price discrimination for firms is the use of coupons and rebates. Firms are basically allowing consumers to self-identify their respective price elasticities of demand for a product.

Describe the last time you used a coupon or a rebate, and another time where you knew a coupon might be available and yet chose to not bother with it. Make sure to explain how the opportunity cost of your time and effort played a part in the choice you made.

Do you think price discrimination through coupons is fair? Should there be laws against this behavior? Why or why not?

Describe and discuss the origins of nonprice competition among hospitals.Describe and discuss conditions under which hospital cost shifting can occur and its causality.

Hospitals – The Affordable Care Act and the Impact on U.S. Healthcare Providers

Discuss why hospitals are predominantly nonprofit.

Describe and discuss the performance of nonprofit and for-profit hospitals.

Describe and discuss tax-exempt status for nonprofit hospitals.

Describe and discuss the effects of managed care on health care providers.

Describe and discuss the origins of nonprice competition among hospitals.

Describe and discuss hospitals’ transition to price competition.

Describe and discuss hospital price competition in theory and practice.

Describe and discuss the theory of hospital cost shifting.

Describe and discuss the relationship between hospital prices and profits.

Describe and discuss the origins of claims of hospitals cost shifting.

Describe and discuss conditions under which hospital cost shifting can occur and its causality.

Describe and discuss price discrimination and its application to hospitals.