A famous idea to maintain affordable health expenditures is to cut back statutory health insurance (SHI) to a basic … insurance and to introduce supplementary private health insurance (PHI), permitted to cover the remaining benefits and to apply … managed care mechanisms. The measure is supposed to lower public health expenditures and to enhance cost efficiency and …

A famous idea to maintain affordable health expenditures is to cut back statutory health insurance (SHI) to a basic … insurance and to introduce supplementary private health insurance (PHI), permitted to cover the remaining benefits and to apply … managed care mechanisms. The measure is supposed to lower public health expenditures and to enhance cost efficiency and …

on health care quality, health care financing and welfare. We show that without patient mobility quality is too low (high …

market. These health care services are obtained normally through insurance contracts. In this paper, I seek explanations for …In Scandinavia, the provision of health care services has been, almost entirely, the responsibility of the public … health care system. However, in the last five to seven years there has been remarkable growth in the private health care …

market. These health care services are obtained normally through insurance contracts. In this paper, I seek explanations for …In Scandinavia, the provision of health care services has been, almost entirely, the responsibility of the public … health care system. However, in the last five to seven years there has been remarkable growth in the private health care …

on health care quality, health care financing and welfare. We show that without patient mobility quality is too low (high …

provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … reveal that the insurance component contributes significantly to optimal labor tax rates and provides an informative lower …

can be used to self-insure, substituting for both formal and informal insurance. We investigate this question using a … remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover … is influenced by other risk management strategies and that determinants of informal insurance differ from those of formal …