Financial Incentive


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Financial Incentive

An incentive to do something because it is less expensive than not doing so. For example, a company may have a financial incentive to open a factory in Town A instead of Town B because Town A's property taxes are lower.
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Although Adams, Barnett and Kaserman (ABK), ["Markets For Organs: The Question of Supply," Contemporary Economic Policy, 17:2, 1999] have found that financial incentives have the potential to completely eliminate the organ shortage, 12 percent of the individuals in their survey indicated that they would be offended, and withdraw altogether from the donation process, if such a system were implemented.
Characteristics of those offended by organ procurement alternatives. (Anthology)
HMOs also use legal and financial incentives to keep their providers from complaining about poor quality either to patients or to the press.
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This paper describes some of the new financial incentive programs being tested and provides some estimates of their likelihood of success.
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Frustrated by the inability of education programs to attract new organ donors, the transplant community has turned its focus on several controversial, long-tabooed methods to increase the supply of organs--providing financial incentives for deceased donor beneficiaries, compensating live donors, donation by direct authorization, and presumed consent.
Frustrated by failure to add new donors, transplant community to try once taboo methods
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Sales manager Lynda Spendlove explained: "This is a once-only opportunity to purchase a stylish family home with a financial incentive to tempt you.
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