1. In comparing SAV among diseases and diagnoses, would more complicated diseases suggest greater or lesser variation? 2. Consider the approximation of the welfare loss due to inter-area deviations...

1. In comparing SAV among diseases and diagnoses, would more complicated diseases suggest greater or lesser variation?

2. Consider the approximation of the welfare loss due to inter-area deviations from the correct rate of care. All else equal, which procedures would yield the largest welfare losses— those with low price elasticities in absolute value or those with high price elasticities in absolute value? Why is this so?