Chapter 30: Q.2 - Critical Thinking Questions (page 686)
Could it be rational for someone to choose to be uninsured and pay an annual $250 penalty? Explain your reasoning.
It will be rational for someone to pay an annualpenalty
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Distinguish among alternative approaches to measuring and addressing poverty.
During the past decade, many members of the baby boom generation have passed through ages ranging from the middle 40s to the late 50s. Do you suppose that the fact that there have been more members of this generation than other generations in the population during this past decade tends to imply that there was higher or lower measured inequality over the period? Why?
Who provides the more than $100 billion that Medicare spends on prescription drugs each year?
a. What is the value of the Gini coefficient if area B is twice as large as area A?
b. Suppose that the Lorenz curve becomes more bowed, with the result that area B becomes exactly the same size as area A. What will be the new value of the Gini coefficient?
A government agency determines that the entire community discussed in Problem 30-10 qualifies for a special program in which the government will pay for a number of health care services that most residents previously had not consumed. Many residents immediately make appointments with the community physicians' group. Given the information in Problem 30-10, what is the likely effect on the profit-maximizing price and the equilibrium quantity of health care services provided by the physicians' group in this community?
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