Dette er en foreløbig og oversigtlig afrapportering baseret på den største systematiske undersøgelse af syge-og sundhedsforsikringer i Danmark. Godt 5.400 mennesker mellem 18-75 år blev interviewet i juni måned 2009, jfr. Health Economics Paper 2009:3. Formålet med notatet er ikke at...

This paper reviews the theoretical literature on the demand for private health insurance and its effect on the use of health care services and applies the theoretical framework to the type of private health insurance that exists alongside a universal health care system. The predominant share of...

When introducing Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) tariffs as the basis for paying hospitals in Europe, one of the major problems was to find a balancing point between the aim of increasing hospital activity and the need to control global expenditures on hospital care. Consequently, in several...

In Denmark GP services are free at the point of use. A looming conflict between GPs and the payor, the Danish Regions, has raised the possibility of copayment during a possible upcoming conflict. Danish empirical evidence on the demand effect of copayment is largely nonexisting. However, from...