Essay #7. 216
The United Stateshospital industry is an unusual market in that nonprofit and for-profitproducers exist simultaneously. Theoretical literature offers conflicting views on whether nonprofithospitals are less financially efficient. Theory suggests that nonprofit hospitals are so much more interested inoffering high-quality service than in making money that they frequently inputmore resources to provide the same output of service as for-profithospitals. This priority might alsooften lead them to be less vigilant in streamlining their services--eliminatingduplication between departments, for instance. Conversely, while profit motive is thought to encourage for-profithospitals to attain efficient production, most theorists admit that obstaclesto that efficiency remain. For-profithospital managers,for example, generally work independently of hospital owners and thus may notalways make maximum financial efficiency their highest priority. The literature also suggests that widespreadadoption of third-party payment systems may eventually eliminate any suchpotential differences between the two kinds of hospitals.
The same literatureoffers similarly conflicting views of the efficiency of nonprofit hospitalsfrom a social welfare perspective. Newhouse (1970) contends that nonprofithospital managers unnecessarily expand the quality and quantity of hospitalcare beyond the actual needs of the community, while Weisbrod (1975) arguesthat nonprofit firms--hospitals included--contribute efficiently to communitywelfare by providing public services that might be inadequately provided bygovernment alone.
Question #24. 216-05
The passage suggestswhich of the following about the managers mentioned in the highlighted text?
(A) They havegenerally been motivated to streamline hospital services as a result of directintervention by hospital owners.
(B) They are morelikely than managers of nonprofit hospitals to use unnecessary amounts ofresources to provide services.
(C) Their mostimportant self-acknowledged goal is to achieve maximum financial efficiency sothat hospitals show a profit.
(D) Their decisionsregarding services provided by their hospitals may not reflect hospital owners'priorities.
(E) They do notplace a high priority on maximizing profits, despite their desire to achieveefficiency.
答案是D，求教B项为何错呢作者: luke-216 时间: 2011-9-17 06:23
b选项
for profit 比nonprofit morelikely to use unnecessary amounts of resource是在哪里看出来的呢？
我估计楼主找到是这句Theory suggests that nonprofit hospitals are so much more interested inoffering high-quality service than in making money that they frequently inputmore resources to provide the same output of service as for-profithospitals
那看不出来啊，只是non相比于赚钱来讲更愿意提供高水准的服务，后面是修饰~提供Gordon一样的产出来投入资源作者: shenyelaile 时间: 2011-9-17 20:37
E为什么错误..请教~
原文： For-profit hospital managers, for example, generally work independently of hospital owners and thus may not always make maximum financial efficiency their highest priority.作者: allygmat7 时间: 2011-9-18 06:29
请教一下，E为什么错误呢？是因为 despite their desire toachieve efficiency.这句多余吗？作者: sprite112 时间: 2011-9-18 21:08
1、原文是“ may not always make maximum financial efficiency” 不总是2、E说的是don't, 太绝对了
所以E不能选。作者: sprite112 时间: 2011-9-18 21:09
然后，D选项也有may not，语气与原文一致。
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