Economics of Enterprise Answers

What are the major financial risks facing an insurance company?

Does financial innovation in health care improve productivity and consumer welfare the way technological innovation does?

Which faces greater risk of bankruptcy: a nursing home company or a pharmaceutical company? Which has the more diversified “portfolio” of assets?

Do changes in Medicare change the value of hospitals? Do they change the value of the hospitals’ bonds?

Why did hospitals borrow so much and load up their balance sheets with debt during the 1980s?

Is an insurance company more concerned about fixed capital or working capital? Does this make it easier or harder to finance rapid growth?

Do generic drugs replace or compete with brand-name drugs?

Are patents a cost or an asset?

Do patents raise or lower the productivity of research?