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The elasticity of firm-specific versus general for health economics is examined.

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Firm-specific demand price elasticity's are higher than elasticity for demand in general because they are for a smaller group and are therefore more responsive to changes than the general market with a large pool, which is not as sensitive to variations.
For example, when the price of physicians for a specific firm was increased by 1%, the physician's visits demanded by the patients decrease by 3.26%. In contrast, when the prices for the physician visits ...

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