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We analyze admission and discharge decisions when hospitals become capacity constrained on high‐demand days, and develop a test for discrimination that, under certain circumstances, does not require controls for differences across patient groups. On high‐demand days, patients are discharged earlier than expected compared to those discharged on low‐demand days. High demand creates no statistically significant differences in hospitals' admission behavior. Thus, hospitals appear to ration capacity by hastening discharges rather than by restricting admissions. We could not reject a null hypothesis of no discrimination against Medicaid patients in discharges.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- New to the Ninth Edition -- Our Approach -- Additional Sources -- Alternative Course Designs -- Instructor Resources -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Basic Economics Tools -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- What Is Health Economics? -- The Relevance of Health Economics -- The Size and Scope of the Health Economy -- Health Care Spending in Other Countries -- Importance of the Health Economy in Personal Spending -- Importance of Labor and Capital in the Health Economy -- Time: The Ultimate Resource -- The Importance Attached to Economic Problems of Health Care Delivery -- Inflation -- Access -- Quality -- The Economic Side to Other Health Issues -- Economic Methods and Examples of Analysis -- Features of Economic Analysis -- Scarcity of Resources -- Rational Decision Making -- Marginal Analysis -- Use of Models -- Two Notable Contributors to Health Economics -- Does Economics Apply to Health and Health Care? -- An Example: Does Price Matter? -- Is Health Care Different? -- Disparities, Equity, and Need -- Presence and Extent of Uncertainty -- Prominence of Insurance -- Problems of Information -- Restrictions On Competition -- Government Subsidies and Public Provision -- Conclusions -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Exercises -- Note -- Chapter 2 Microeconomic Tools for Health Economics -- Scarcity and the Production Possibilities Frontier -- Practice With Supply and Demand -- The Demand Curve and Demand Shifters -- The Supply Curve and Supply Shifters -- Equilibrium -- Comparative Statics -- Functions and Curves -- Linear Functions -- Demand Functions -- Derived Demand -- Consumer Theory: Ideas Behind the Demand Curve -- Utility -- Indifference Curves -- Budget Constraints -- Consumer Equilibrium -- Individual and Market Demands.

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This paper highlights the limitations and applicability of results developed by Chao & Nahata (2015) for nonlinear pricing. Although Chao and Nahata appear to provide necessary and sufficient conditions for general utility functions, we show that one of their results leads only to a restatement of two constraints, and another result may not be valid when consumers can freely dispose of the good. Their model allows for the possibility that higher quantities will have a lower price than smaller quantities. We provide conditions under free disposal that preclude this anomaly. Our analysis suggests that further research on violations of the single-crossing condition should be encouraged.