Abstract

Occupational health companies that do not provide products or services directly to patients generally share the same operating environment as companies in other industries. For example, machine tool makers Cincinnati Milicron and GE Medical Systems sell their products in much the same way.Cincinnati sells its machines directly to manufacturers who use them to make other products, and GE Medical sells diagnostic equipment directly to hospitals, clinics and other facilities that use its equipment for diagnostic tests. The prices that both companies charge for their products are set in a competitive marketplace, making it relatively easy for buyers to distinguish between competing products. In general, the more expensive the product, the better the performance, and performance can be judged by more or less objective metrics. For example, in some sectors of occupational health and most other sectors of the economy, consumers of products or services have many suppliers to choose from, distinguish the quality of competing products or services, and Can (probably) act and make decisions rationally. As for the quality and price of the purchase, we will bear the full purchase cost. However, for the most part, the provision of health care in the workplace has its own way of doing things. First, there are often only a few companies offering a particular service in your neighborhood. Moreover, it is very difficult, if not impossible, to assess the quality of competing services.Decisions about which aids to purchase are typically made by physicians or other clinicians, not by the consumer of these aids. Payments to providers are generally made by third-party payers, not by users of the assistance. Finally, for most people, third-party health insurance is fully or heavily subsidized by employers or government agencies, leaving patients largely isolated from professional medical bills.

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