Assignment:
Consumer Considerations in Selecting Health Care
Academic medical centers often compete with neighboring community hospitals for routine patient care services. What price-quality assumptions about health services do consumers make in deciding between two such hospitals? Are they rationale? Explain why or why not.
Your responses to other learners are expected to be substantive in nature and reference the assigned readings, as well as other theoretical, empirical, or professional literature to support your views and writings.
Use the following guidelines to create your responses. If there are no post that would work for each guideline, you may use the same guideline for both responses.
- How did their post influence your thinking?
- What suggestions can you make to strengthen their post?
- Direct a response toward someone who selected at least one standard that was the same as your own.
- Compare and contrast your posts. What suggestions can you make to strengthen their post?
- How did their post aid in your understanding of the subject?