1. What incentives could be created by changes in payment or policy for patients, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, or states to help alleviate mental health issues?

2. Base on the current Opiod crisis across the U.S. Answer the following:

a. What roles did hospitals, providers, pharmaceutical companies and Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) play in the current opioid crisis?

b. What payment incentives contributed to their behavior?

c. What changes would you recommend to the current situation.

d. Explain how your proposed changes will impact the situation in a year and in a decade.

read the following article excerpt: Robot in the factory and price rise for suppliers as Maleny Dairies for the future ABC News 28 november 2019.
Task: describe what you think some of the key costs would be for Maleny Dairies, and detail which are fixed costs and which are variable costs.
how do you think their current investment would impact costs.
depict these changes changes on a diagram showing ATC, AVC and MC under their old structure and under new structure and explain how this shows the changes that you have proposed

I need to make a strategic IT plan for Emirates Airline so I need the organization background answering the following points:

• Date that the company was founded.
• Outline, in point form, a brief history of your company.
• Outline any acquisitions or changes in ownership.
• Are any changes of ownership anticipated?
• What are the major challenges the company has overcome to date? In the last 5 years? In the last year?
• How would you describe your company in one sentence?
• Do you see any changes in the business markets in the future?
• What are the implications, if any, of this information with respect to IT?

The wage for workers in a competitive market is initially $10 and rent, the cost of capital (also rented in a competitive market), is initially $5. Now suppose that wages decrease to $8 and rent decreases to $2.

a) Describe how the scale effect changes a firm's use of labor and capital.

b) Describe how the substitution effect changes a firm's use of labor and capital.

c) Overall will a firm hire more or fewer workers? Will a firm rent more or less capital?

d) Will a firm change its production technology given the changes in w and r?

Whether you agree or disagree with the concept of global warming, one thing is clear....the oceans are becoming more acidic with time. Although the changes in pH are small in number, it is enough change to have a detremental effect on the coral systems living within the ocean (as remember pH operates on a logarithm). In many real world applications, as with the coral systems in the ocean, small changes in pH can cause death. However, some of these systems have built in buffer mechanisms to maintain pH in cases where it could be deadly in cases of very small changes.

In this week's discussion:

A) Describe the term pH and and the pH scale briefly.

B) Describe the chemistry behind a physiological buffer system.

C) Describe a scenario (other than the oceans and blood) where small changes in pH are critical and whether that described system has a buffer mechanism.

Your company is considering a new project that will require $10,000 of new equipment at the start of the project. The equipment will have a depreciable life of five years and will be depreciated to a book value of $3,000 using straight-line depreciation. The cost of capital is 9 percent, and the firm's tax rate is 34 percent. Estimate the present value of the tax benefits from depreciation.

Which statement is true regarding cost-cutting proposals?

a) What are the main features of the Canadian economy in the second quarter of 2014? Did Canada have a recessionary gap or an inflationary gap in 2014? How do you know?

b) Use the AS - AD model to show the changes in aggregate demand and aggregate supply that occurred in 2013 and 2014 that brought the economy to its situation in mid-2014;

c) Use the AS - AD model to show the changes in aggregate demand and aggregate supply that will have occurred when full employment is restored;

d) Use the AS - AD model to show the changes in aggregate demand and aggregate supply that would occur if the government increased its expenditure on goods and services or cut taxes by enough to restore full employment.

e) Use the AS - AD model to show the changes in aggregate demand and aggregate supply that would occur if the economy moved into an inflationary gap. Show the short-run and the long-run effects.

1. A manager wishes to check the miles her taxi cabs are driven each day. Her findings are shown below. Construct a frequency distribution, using ten classes.

   136	97	163	118	146	109	99
   124	119	151	122	131	124	101
   118	118	119	142	124	137	106
   152	99	107	151	139	116	137
   143	105	99	125	108	160	142

   What is the Range? Blank 1

   What is the Class Width? Blank 2

   Fill in the table after creating it on paper. rf and crf are rounded to two decimal places. To input the Class Limits and Class Boundaries, you will need to put the lower class limit/boundary in the first blank and the upper class limit/boundary in the blank below where you input the lower. It is the way the Blackboard tool works.

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Rate each of the following effects of the Industrial revolution as, in your opinion, mostly positive or mostly negative: a) population growth, b) economic growth, c) standard of living, d) changes in family life, e) class divisions, and f) environmental changes. Explain your choices.