It confirms the trend towards greater differentiation between public and private hospitals in this regard: the number of caesareans performed in public hospitals has remained stable in recent years, but in private hospitals it has risen.
This paper argues that two factors may contribute to the extent of cream-skimming: (i) degree of horizontal differentiation between public and private options when preferences are heterogeneous; (ii) whether contract design encourages choice of private insurance before information about risk is revealed.
Just the fact that most people can understand the phrase 'typical public shooting' and the differentiation between massacres like Sandy Hook is troubling.
If so, this classification might also be useful for a differentiation in public health interventions.
Currently, differentiation between public and private health care insurances has disappeared and physical therapy is accessible without a referral.
"We have to think of something that is somewhat heretical in public education, and that is differentiation," he said.
Educational reforms like high-stakes testing and the new federal law, called No Child Left Behind, force teachers and public school districts to forgo differentiation and continuing assessment in favor of one-stop standardization.
In the fall of 2000, Copernicus, a Massachusetts-based marketing consulting firm, teamed up with researchers at Market Facts, based in Chicago, to look at the public's perception of brand differentiation in 46 major product categories.
(2) The winner-take-all logic is challenged: The innovation ecosystem is characterized by its openness to the public, which means that the differentiation of resources and complementary innovations are pursued.
Without a single patent and little to no significant barriers to entry in the space, Groupon has a ways to go before it convinces investors (and now the public) that there's enough differentiation and value in its model to warrant a high market cap.
