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Medical innovations and ageing : a health economics perspective

Grossmann, Volker - 2021

This paper discusses the relationship between medical innovations and ageing from a health economics perspective and surveys empirical evidence on medical R&D incentives, R&D costs of pharmaceuticals, and the cost-effectiveness of health innovations. Particular focus is on the endogeneity of...

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Do pandemics change healthcare? : evidence from the great influenza

Esteves, Rui Pedro; Mitchener, Kris; Nencka, Peter; … - 2022

Using newly digitized U.S. city-level data on hospitals, we explore how pandemics alter preferences for healthcare. We … access to healthcare. We do not find evidence that government-run hospitals or other types of city-level spending related to … healthcare responded to pandemic intensity, suggesting that large health shocks do not necessarily lead to increased public …

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Competition and waiting times in hospital markets

Brekke, Kurt R. (contributor); Siciliani, Luigi (contributor) - 2007

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Health values, preference inconsistency, and insurance demand

Wrede, Matthias (contributor) - 2005

Several empirical studies provide evidence that their actual health state affects people's attitudes towards health and medical care in hypothetical health states. In the tradition of behavioural economics this paper considers the actual health state as a point of reference and builds a model...

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Demand patterns for treatment insurance in Norway

Aarbu, Karl Ove - 2010

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...

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Public health care with waiting time : the role of supplementary private health care

Hoel, Michael; Sæther, Erik Magnus - 2001

the cost of public healthcare that everyone pays for. Even if higher quality (i.e. zero waiting time) canbe achieved at no …

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Insurance and the utilization of medical services among the self-employed

Perry, Craig William; Rosen, Harvey S. - 2001

There has been substantial public policy concern over the relatively low rates of health insurance coverage among the self-employed in the United States. We use data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey conducted in 1996 to analyze how the self-employed and wage-earners differ both with...

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First do no harm. Then do not cheat : DRG upcoding in German neonatology

Jürges, Hendrik; Köberlein-Neu, Juliane - 2013

Since 2003 German hospitals are reimbursed according to diagnosis related groups (DRGs). Patient classification in neonatology is based inter alia on birth weight, with substantial discontinuities in reimbursement at eight different thresholds. These discontinuities create strong incentives to...

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Universal coverage on a budget : impacts on health care utilization and out-of-pocket expenditures in Thailand

Supon Limwattananon; Neelsen, Sven; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2013

We estimate the impact on health care utilization and out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures of a major reform in Thailand that extended health insurance to one-quarter of the population to achieve universal coverage while keeping health spending below 4% of GDP. Identification is through comparison...

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Patient mobility, health care quality and welfare

Brekke, Kurt R.; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - 2014

Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients' right to EU-wide provider choice. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility on health care quality, health care financing and...

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