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

question 160

Multiple Choice

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

• A)increase; increasing
• B)increase; decreasing
• C)decrease; increasing
• D)decrease; decreasing

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