This document discusses concepts related to the demand for medical care. It covers how the demand for medical care is derived from the demand for health, and how demand is affected by factors like out-of-pocket prices, income, time costs, quality of care, and an individual's health status. The document also explains the law of demand, price elasticity of demand, and how elasticity is determined by characteristics of the good or service, like availability of substitutes, whether it is a necessity or luxury, and its share of the consumer's budget.
34. Demand for Medical Care
out-of-pocket price
income
time costs
prices of substitutes and compliments
tastes and preferences
physical and mental profile
state of health
quality of care
50. Quality of Care
Hard to measure
nice office
!
perception is more
important than reality
51. Market Demand
!
Intensive Margin
Do you buy more or less when
the price changes
!
Extensive Margin
Do more or fewer people buy
when the price changes
52. Elasticity
!
A measure of how much
one economic variable
responds
to changes in
another economic variable