The 2010 health-care reform law commonly known as Obamacare required large companies to provide costly health insurance to their full-time workers. In response, some large companies started preferring to employ part-time workers rather than full-time employees. This is an example of:

A. Unintended consequences
B. The principal-agent problem
C. Special-interest effect
D. Limited and bundled choice


A. Unintended consequences

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What will be an ideal response?

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Which of the following types of information most likely allows the exploitation of a profit opportunity?

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a. E[X]=???XiPr[Xi]. b. E[X]=??XiPr[Xi]. c. E[X]=?XiPr[Xi]. d. E[X]=?XiPr[Xi].

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