Does medical insurance affect health care demand and in the end contribute to improvements in the health status …? Evidence for China for the year 2004, by means of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), shows that health insurance … does not affect health care demand in a significant manner. Counterfactuals suggest that full insurance coverage of the …

Does medical insurance affect health care demand and in the end contribute to improvements in the health status …? Evidence for China for the year 2004, by means of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), shows that health insurance … does not affect health care demand in a significant manner. Counterfactuals suggest that full insurance coverage of the …

System (PPS) for hospitals based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) to assess their impact on health and on the use of health … care services. We consider survey data for the years 1993-2007 with information on both individualsÄ perceived health and … their utilization of health care services. Results suggest that the introduction of market incentives via a fixed …

studies how the system of health care provision affects the allocation of patients to physicians when physicians differ in … altruism. We show that allowing for private provision of health care, parallel to (free) treatment in a National Health Service …

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 …

cost, the self-selection induced redistribution may implythat it is socially optimal to provide health care publicly and at …We consider an economy where most of the health care is publicly provided,and where there is waiting time for several … for public health treatment. Moreover, we studythe interaction between this quality decision and the optimal tax …

financial incentives but also with expected treatment costs measured by poor newborn health conditional on weight. This suggests …

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

and patients' health, and the optimal discharge date before the reform. Testing the results with data, we find a large … negative effect on bed-blocking and discharge date. Thus, financial incentives may count more than health incentives, or health …