The Affordable Care Act (Obama Care) requires people to sign up for health insurance or pay a penalty. This seems harsh to some but others claim it is good policy because
A. the cost to fake principle implies that it is hard to hide sickness or injury.
B. adverse selection will cause premiums to continually increase eliminating many from care.
C. statistical discrimination means that health care plans are losing propositions for everyone.
D. health care premiums are higher than expected loses even for the highest risk patients.
Answer: B
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Jet Cruises wants to prevent Easy Sail from entering the sailboat market. The above game tree illustrates the different strategies and corresponding payoffs for the two firms. Both Jet Cruises and Easy Sail have the same strategies of advertising (Ad) or not advertising (No Ad). The payoffs represent net profit in millions.
A) Ad; $3 B) No Ad; $2 C) Ad; $5 D) No Ad; $4
According to Keynes, during extreme times like deep recessions, which group is the only one possessing the power and resources to move aggregate demand?
a. Consumers b. Producers c. Government d. Investors
Which of the following events in U.S. history did not create economic growth (shift the production possibilities curve outward)?
A. The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 that nearly doubled the land mass of the United States. B. Inventions of machines such as Cyrus McCormick's mechanical reaper. C. The introduction of the moving assembly line in automobile production by Henry Olds. D. The dramatic reduction in the U.S. unemployment rate from 1939 to 1941 as we prepared to enter World War II.
You paid $35 for a ticket (which is non-refundable) to see SPAM, a local rock band, in concert on Saturday. Assume that $35 is the most you would have been willing to pay for a ticket. Your boss called, and she is looking for someone to cover a shift on Saturday at the same time as the concert. You would have to work 4 hours and she would pay you $11/hr. The psychic cost to you of working is $2/hr. Should you go to the concert instead of working Saturday?
A. Yes, the benefit of going to the concert is more than the cost. B. No, because there are no benefits of going to the concert. C. No, the benefit of going to the concert is less than the cost. D. Yes, the benefit of going to the concert is equal to the cost.