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Suppose that the market equilibrium price for a medical check-up is $50, in a market in which there is no health insurance. To encourage more people to get a check-up, the local government indicates that the price of a check-up cannot be more than $40

a. Is this a price floor or a price ceiling?
b. Draw a graph to illustrate the implementation of the policy.
c. What happens to the number of check-ups in the market? Show on your graph.
d. What happens to consumer surplus in the market? What happens to producer surplus?

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Answer:

a. Price ceiling

b. see graph

c. Increases

d. Increases, decreases

Step-by-step explanation:

a. Price ceiling is the maximum price or ceiling so to speak imposed by government for a particular commodity inorder to relieve purchase burden from the consumers.

b. Take note of the price ceiling in the graph attached.

c. Number of demanded check-ups increases, since they are now more affordable.

d. Consumer surplus increase by $10, while the producer surplus decrease by $10 ($50-$40).

Suppose that the market equilibrium price for a medical check-up is $50, in a market-example-1
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