We consider an economy where most of the health care is publicly provided,and where there is waiting time for several … types of treatments. Privatehealth care without waiting time is an option for the patients in the publichealth queue. We … show that although patients with low waiting costs willchoose public treatment, they may be better off with waiting time …

There has been substantial public policy concern over the relatively low rates of health insurance coverage among the … the self-employed and wage-earners differ both with respect to insurance coverage and utilization of a variety of health … care services. Our results suggest that for the self-employed, the link between insurance and utilization of health care …

Suppliers who are better informed than purchasers, such as physicians treating insured patients, often have discretion …

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 …

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

Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients' right to EU-wide provider choice … on health care quality, health care financing and welfare. We show that without patient mobility quality is too low (high …) and too few (many) patients are treated in the high-skill (low-skill) region. The effects of patient mobility depend on …

mechanism can help explain empirical findings of a negative effect of competition on quality in markets such as health care …

Health care financing and funding are usually analyzed in isolation. This paper combines the corresponding strands of … of three modes of health care financing, namely, optimal income taxation, proportional income taxation, and insurance …. Considering a standard multi-task agency framework we show that optimal health care policies will generally differ across …

Theoretical considerations suggest that nonlinear health care price schedules have heterogeneous effects on health care … heterogeneous reactions to the introduction of a nonlinear price schedule in the German statutory health insurance system. In … administrative insurance claims data from the largest German health insurance plan, we find that some individuals strongly react to …