Who would be the " demanders" ? Households? Individuals ? Other business? If adding free urgent care clinics to downtown detroit How many of them are there? If customers are individuals (as opposed to business), do demographics suggest that incomes and lifestyles are consistent with a business of this type such as free urgent care clinics?

For a single illness (such as a sore throat and cough), show the demand curves for three different consumers with different preferences about medical care and other goods. Need the demand curves be parallel? Could they ever cross? Now aggregate those three demand curves into a demand curve for them together. If these three people constitute the entire population in a market area, then this demand curve is the "market" demand curve. Think about what would happen when you aggregated the demand curves of thousands of individuals.

Suppose the government imposes a system of price ceilings in the health care industry as part of an overall health care reform bill. a) draw a graph of the health care market and show equilibrium price and quantity.  b) assume the government imposes an effective price ceiling in the health care market. Show the price ceiling in your graph. Indicate what will happen to quantity demanded and quantity supplied of health over time ? c) would a shortage or surplus result ? I llustrate in your graph.

Walmart should not pay for the health care of its workers: Why should it?

Explain the factors that may cause shortages of physicians in rural areas. Explain what types of policies might encourage physicians to move to rural areas and reduce the shortage.

What are the three major cost-reducing features of the Singapore health care system? Which one do you think has the largest effect on holding down the price of medical care in Singapore? What element of the Singapore system is shared by the Whole Foods and State of Indiana systems? What elements are missing? How difficult do you think it would be to implement those missing elements in the United States? Explain

What factors can be identified that are affecting the demand for healthcare. Also the demand for health.

What is the largest health care program in the United States? A)DOD Tricare B) Medicaid C) Medicare D) The ACA

Some argue that the price elasticity of demand can be used to determine whether a good or service is a luxury or a necessity. In medical care, a procedure with an elastic demand would be considered optional, or elective, and a procedure with an inelastic demand would be a medical necessity. Should planners use price elasticity of demand as a guide to defining services that are medically necessary? What are the advantages of such a classification scheme? What are the drawbacks?

What approaches to healthcare reform are morally acceptable, economically effective, and politically feasible?