Co-payments for prescription drugs and the demand for doctor visits - Evidence from a natural experiment
The German health care reform of 1997 provides a natural experiment for evaluating the price sensitivity of demand for physicians' services. As a part of the reform, co-payments for prescription drugs were increased step up to 200%. However, certain groups of people were exempted from the increase, providing a natural control group against which the changed demand for physicians' services of the treated, those subject to increased co-payments, can be assessed. The differences-in-differences estimates indicate that increased co-payments reduced the number of doctor visits by about 10% on an average. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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2004
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Authors: | Winkelmann, Rainer |
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Health Economics. - John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., ISSN 1057-9230. - Vol. 13.2004, 11, p. 1081-1089
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