Pinto (2004) argues that two sets of questions must be asked of marginal bio-medical providers, the first about how they achieve legitimacy and the second about the global and national conditions that make such work necessary, inevitable but ultimately exclusionary.
While costly at first, the marginal cost of provider participation tended to decline as provider participation increased.
Although this might be the case for some dentists, the marginal improvements obtained through provider interventions based solely on education [ 57] suggest that additional reasons for observed differences exist.
But for many others, the cancer machine offers only marginal benefits at best, and providers push screening and aggressive treatment in part because they have nothing else to give, but also because it's profitable.
Such calculation enables cloud providers to determine marginal costs in their services' price, and allows users to calculate costs they would incur by executing the same application using their own resources.
Concerning the first difference and following Salinger [6], we suppose that vertical integration allows HMOs to pay for the health care delivered by affiliated providers at their marginal cost, whereas nonintegrated health insurance companies have to pay a wholesale price to health care providers, which is by nature higher than the marginal cost.
Consequently, with the current design, MIP financial benefits to chronic patients (for drug costs and a provider fees) seem marginal for motivating patients' access to formal outpatient health services.
"With more extensive reforms leading China to transition to spot markets and allowing electricity providers to reflect the marginal costs of wind generation, China's clean energy potential could be further increased," Karplus said.
Finally, we present a way to rank different flexibility providers by considering their marginal contribution to aggregate cost savings, reduced CO2 emissions, and increased utilization of renewable energy sources in the system.
Barry Steinhardt of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an "on-line civil liberties" group, says any number of specialized Internet service providers are too economically marginal to withstand the effect of a big tax.
