New talents from Japan introduced to the English-speaking world. From deep in the mountains of the Japanese countryside to the plains of frigid Pluto, from a warm South Pacific isle to a freezing mountainside, to Mars or inside a lonely psyche... a positive smorgasbord of speculative enjoyment, in English for the first time!
The creators of "Basilisk" now transport readers to 17th-century Japan for this new series. A rebellion in Aizu territory has been brutally crushed, leaving most of the nuns in a nearby convent slaughtered. Now the convents survivors swear vengeance and dedicate themselves to the study of the deadly ninja arts.
The first chapter theoretically analyzes how managed care health insurance plans change local hospital market structure by introducing selective contracting, with which managed care was successful in restraining the growth of insurance premiums. In the theoretical model developed in this chapter, a take it or leave it offer by a managed care plan plays the role of selective contracting, and it is added a model of price competition among hospitals. Managed care's increased presence in a local market reduces the number of hospitals in the market, by driving relatively inefficient hospitals out of the business.
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