prep2 essay7 Q23

LUANXINS

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 #23.216-04

According to the passage, Newhouse's view of the social welfare efficiency of nonprofit hospitals differs from Weisbrod's view in that Newhouse



(A) contends that government already provides most of the services that communities need

(B) argues that for-profit hospitals are better at meeting actual community needs than are nonprofit hospitals

(C) argues that nonprofit hospitals are likely to spend more to provide services that the community requires than for-profit hospitals are likely to spend

(D) argues that nonprofit hospitals ought to expand the services they provide to meet the community's demands

(E) believes that the level of care provided by nonprofit hospitals is inappropriate, given the community's requirements

这道题目的答案是E。可是我怎么也想不通。能否请大家帮我解释一下。
非常感谢

lengling

做这个题首先要看到第二段的第一句话~两者的观点是不同的地位确立了~
我估计楼主选着的是c~但是你细看c的翻译是non提供的社会要求的要比profit要多 d也是为了满足社会需要所以提供更多...也不对
e说的很笼统，但是没有毛病
Newhouse (1970) contends that nonprofit hospital managers unnecessarily expand the quality and quantity of hospital care beyond the actual needs of the community
这是它原来句子的观点
e说newhouse说了他提供不合指标，正好跟最后一句说的政府独立不能满足的观点相对立~
所以e更准确~

LUANXINS

非常感谢你！
但是我还是有点疑惑：从两个方面来考虑总觉得不对。
第一个方面：
原句中：Newhouse (1970) contends that nonprofit hospital managers unnecessarily expand the quality and quantity of hospital care beyond the actual needs of the community
表示newhouse 认为nonprofit hospital 没有必要再扩张超过实际的需求了， 也就是说nonprofit hospital实际上已经达到了community的需求了。

第二个方面：
而后面半句：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.

说的是weisbroad认为政府给的不满足要求，这个观点和Newhouse相反。所以newhouse认为政府给的是满足了社区的要求
这两个方面都是和E相反的。

不知是否我理解上有问题，请指教！谢谢！

lengling

我想说的是一个方面是non已经超过了实际的要求~不是他没必要是他没有必要的已经超了，

你看对不？
第二个方面政府独立不能完成的，non起到了有效的贡献作用，在反过来推non
e是成立的啊，楼主我是这样看的，主要在句子的翻译上.