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A Goal of Market-Based Reforms of the Health Care System

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A goal of market-based reforms of the health care system is to give patients an incentive to pay more attention to the prices of medical services.This would tend to ________ economic efficiency by ________ the costs of medical services


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Negative Punishment

A behavior modification technique involving the removal of a desirable stimulus after unwanted behavior occurs, with the aim of decreasing that behavior.

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A schedule of reinforcement where a response is rewarded after an unpredictable amount of time has passed.

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