negative impact on the level of care being provided as it incentivises consultants to focus on the number of patients seen … optimal when the benefit associated with curing patients is large enough. The impact on waiting lists is ambiguous …

the hospital characteristics that are associated with patients choosing rural hospitals, and sheds light on the types of … patients who depend on rural hospitals for care and, hence, may be the most impaired by the closure of rural hospitals. Using … data from California hospitals, the paper shows that patients were more likely to choose nearby hospitals, larger hospitals …