Refer to the Managerial Application ‘‘Resources Used versus Resources Supplied in Health Care.’’ If the new anesthesia reduces the number of minutes a patient stays in the recovery room after surgery,...

Refer to the Managerial Application ‘‘Resources Used versus Resources Supplied in Health Care.’’ If the new anesthesia reduces the number of minutes a patient stays in the recovery room after surgery, why wouldn’t nursing costs necessarily be reduced proportional to the reduction in the number of minutes the patient stays in the recovery room?