Delay and Public Expenditure Determination for Health Care

In this model we use delay as a tool to reduce demand in a public health care system when the public resources are not sufficient to match demand. Our results show that: 1) the presence of a waiting time implies that politicians might well exploit voters’ unease in order to set rent seeking practices, because the voting agenda might be not straightforward; 2) the waiting time may be used to improve incomes redistribution when the Government has a strong preference towards the provision of health care, and against money transfer outlays.