Suppose you have two persons, one with more elastic demand for medical care than the other. If they both obtain identical health insurance coverage (or both have their % of costs paid by insurance increased), whose demand will be affected most? Given what you know about relative demand for MC for well vs. ill individuals, more educated vs. less educated persons, and wealthy vs. less wealthy individuals, which of each pair will have the greatest increase in demand under health insurance?

The consumer demand equation for tissues is given by  q = 11,664 −216 p +p2,  where p is the price per case of tissues and q is the demand in weekly sales. Determine the price elasticity of demand E when the price is set at $24. (Round your answer to three decimal places.)E =

All other things equal, if an individual earning $100,000 per year has an income elasticity of demand for health care of 0.4, if her salary increases by 10%, her expenditures on health care will increase by $4,000.  True  False

Demand studies in health care have provided estimates of both income and price elasticity. Estimates of income elasticity are usually above +1.0 and estimates of price elasticity typically range between −0.1 and −0.75 (with hospital services at the lower end and elective services at the upper end). What is the significance of these estimates to policy makers?

Explain how each of these situations will affect the quantity demanded of health insurance:   a) A reduction in the tax-exempt fraction of health insurance premiums.   b) An increase in buyer income.   c) An increase in per capita medical expenses.

Consider the following information on Alfred’s demand for visits per year to his health clinic, if his health insurance does not cover (100 percent coinsurance) clinic visits. Price Quantity 5 9 10 9 15 9 20 8 25 7 30 6 35 5 40 4 a. Alfred has been paying $25 per visit. How many visits does he make per year? Find his demand curve. b. What happens to his demand curve if the insurance company institutes a 40 percent coinsurance feature (Alfred pays 40 percent of the price of each visit)? What is his new equilibrium quantity? Note:- Do not provide handwritten solution. Maintain accuracy and quality in your answer. Take care of plagiarism. Answer completely. You will get up vote for sure.

Considering Healthcare price elasticity, would it be a good idea to implement a price increase on medical products?

1. An individual has a health insurance plan with a deductible of $1200 and a coinsurance rate of 50%. Their demand curve is Q=20-(P/10), and the equilibrium market price of medical care is $100 per unit. What quantity of medical care would the individual choose to consume? 2. Suppose that consumers are all risk neutral and so they do not purchase health insurance. The equilibrium price of a doctor visit is $30, the supply of doctor visits is perfectly elastic, and the aggregate demand for doctor visits is given by Q=200-5*P. Calculate the effect that universal perfect health insurance (that is, coinsurance rate=0) would have on social welfare, measured as the sum of consumer surplus plus producer surplus. 3. Consider a version of the Akerlof model in which neither buyers nor sellers observe car quality (though somehow – please suspend your disbelief – both buyers and sellers enjoy higher utility from higher quality cars). For this question, please assume that both buyers…

Suppose you are collecting data from a country like Japan where the government sets the price of healthcare. Each prefecture in Japan has a different set of prices (for example, Tokyo has higher prices than rural Hokkaido). Data for 1999 are displayed in the table below.     Region Outpatient Visits per Month Price per Visit Tokyo 1.25 25 Hokkaido 1.75 15     (4 points) What is the arc price elasticity of demand for health care consumers in Japan (using only these data)?   (4 points) Suppose that incomes are generally much higher in Tokyo than Hokkaido. Is your answer to the last question an overestimate or underestimate of price elasticity? Justify your answer.   (c) (4 points) Using your estimated elasticity, what would the demand for health care be if the price in Tokyo were raised to 30 per visit? What would the demand in Hokkaido be if the price were lowered to 5 per visit?

Suppose that the graph below illustrates the demand for healthcare services given a coinsurance plan of 25%, what would be the expected change if the participant changed jobs and received a plan with 100% coinsurance?