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Essay #7.216(22243-!-item-!-188;#058&00216-00)

The United States hospital industry is an unusual market in that nonprofit and for-profit producers exist simultaneously.Theoretical literature offers conflicting views on whether nonprofit hospitals are less financially efficient.Theory suggests that nonprofit hospitals are so much more interested in offering high-quality service than in making money that they frequently input more resources to provide the same output of service as for-profit hospitals.This priority might also often lead them to be less vigilant in streamlining their services--eliminating duplication between departments, for instance.Conversely, while profit motive is thought to encourage for-profit hospitals to attain efficient production, most theorists admit that obstacles to that efficiency remain.For-profit hospital managers, for example, generally work independently of hospital owners and thus may not always make maximum financial efficiency their highest priority.The literature also suggests that widespread adoption of third-party payment systems may eventually eliminate any such potential differences between the two kinds of hospitals.

The same literature offers similarly conflicting views of the efficiency of nonprofit hospitals from a social welfare perspective. Newhouse (1970) contends that nonprofit hospital managers unnecessarily expand the quality and quantity of hospital care beyond the actual needs of the community, while Weisbrod (1975) argues that nonprofit firms--hospitals included--contribute efficiently to community welfare by providing public services that might be inadequately provided by government alone.

Question #22.216-03(22289-!-item-!-188;#058&000216-03)

Which of the following best describes the overall content of the second paragraph of the passage?

(A) It describes views concerning a particular aspect of one of the types of hospitals discussed earlier.

(B) It describes an additional benefit of one of the types of hospitals discussed earlier.

(C) It offers a potential solution to a problem inherent in the structure of the United States hospital industry.

(D) It provides an additional contrast between the two types of hospitals discussed earlier.

(E) It describes one of the consequences of the character of the United States hospital market.

我想知道为什么选择A呢？我选的是B， 感觉对两段的关系还不是很清楚诶。。

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cloudet 发表于 2013-11-26 17:03
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我觉得这个题就选A
因为B里的文章就没有 additional benefits （welfare 讲的只是从这个角度来看）
并且第二段第一句话就明确的说了
s similarly conflicting views of the efficiency of nonprofit hospitals from a social welfare perspective
是从社会福利的角度来看待关于non-profits的有争论的观点的讨论。  

similar conflicting 表明前面展示了一个关于non-profithospital的具有争议的问题的讨论， 现在又从另一个方面（social welfare ）来讨论争议efficiency的问题。

一次过掉gmat

Newhouse (1970) contends that nonprofit hospital managers unnecessarily expand the quality and quantity of hospital care beyond the actual needs of the community, while Weisbrod (1975) argues that nonprofit firms--hospitals included--contribute efficiently to community welfare by providing public services that might be inadequately provided by government alone.
首先，这两个人的观点都是说non-profit的，然后一个是说它提供了不必要的，已经超过要求的服务，隐含的意思就是不支持，这是它的缺点，另一个是说它的优点，可以和政府互补，所以B的benefit不对，不全面