Identify each of the next two scenarios as illustrating the Efficiency problem in the delivery of health care b. Equity problem in the delivery of health care a. 1. High blood pressure is often called the "silent killer." One does not feel ill because of high blood pressure until he/she has possibly a stroke. By law any hospital emergency room must treat anyone with the symptoms of a stroke, but maybe if that person could have afforded high pressure medicine, the stroke could have been prevented. 2. A free market advocate questions why anyone should be forced by law to purchase more expensive health insurance than one really wants.

Identify each of the next two scenarios as illustrating the Efficiency problem in the delivery of health care b. Equity problem in the delivery of health care a. 1. High blood pressure is often called the "silent killer." One does not feel ill because of high blood pressure until he/she has possibly a stroke. By law any hospital emergency room must treat anyone with the symptoms of a stroke, but maybe if that person could have afforded high pressure medicine, the stroke could have been prevented. 2. A free market advocate questions why anyone should be forced by law to purchase more expensive health insurance than one really wants.

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