Question

All of the examples listed below, with one exception, are public goods which at times might possibly lose some of their public good properties due to congestion. Which example is an exception?

	A.	A large urban nonprofit hospital.
	B.	A small nonprofit clinic for homeless people funded by a charitable organization.
	C.	Emergency departments of county-run hospitals.
	D.	Discoveries made through medical research.
	E.	A chain of free methadone clinics in a large city

Answer 1

"D"

Discoveries made through the medical research will not lose the characteristics of the public good, even if more people are using it then too it will remain non rivalrous and non excludable i.e. public good.