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Why combine?
- Report quality and cost, let users decide:
- Consistent with most other markets
- Allows users to integrate their own preferences
- Can avoid issues of aggregating quality
- In some cases combining may important
- P4P
- Tiering
- Best done by users
- CEA perspective: Incremental cost vs incremental output
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