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Essay Galaxy - Demand For Medical Care
Demand for Medical Care
The demand for medical care is derived from our demand for good health. Michael Grossman was the first to do econometric research on this topic. Grossmans work established two approaches for consideration. In the first, medical care is viewed as an input in the production function for health, and in the second, as an output produced by medical care providers (Henderson, p.142). There are two main factors that determine the demand for medical care. The first is the patient factor. This includes a patients health status, demographic characteristics and economic status. The second is the physician factor. This is an interesting topic because it introduces the principal (patient)-agent (physician) problem. We are faced with the problem of diminishing marginal returns for health. At a certain point, we can only produce so much health. The question we....
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