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Waiting times for outpatient treatment in Germany : new experimental evidence from primary data
Heinrich, Nils; Wübker, Ansgar; Wuckel, Christiane - 2017
providers. There is an ongoing debate in Germany regarding the preferential treatment given to private health insurance (PHI … problem in the outpatient sector, in 2015 Germany introduced a reform that was aimed at providing SHI holders with … outpatient treatments in Germany and assessed the reform’s impact on this issue. We found a sizeable difference in waiting times …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631526
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Waiting times for outpatient treatment in Germany : new experimental evidence from primary data
Heinrich, Nils; Wübker, Ansgar; Wuckel, Christiane - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 238 (2018) 5, pp. 375-394
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011954723
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Buying control? : "locus of control" and the uptake of supplementary health insurance
Bonsang, Eric; Costa-Font, Joan; New, Sonja C. de - 2021
. Drawing on longitudinal data from Germany, we find robust evidence that individuals having an internal LOC are more likely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012621933
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Buying control? : "locus of control" and the uptake of supplementary health insurance
Bonsang, Eric; Costa-Font, Joan; New, Sonja C. de - 2021
. Drawing on longitudinal data from Germany, we find robust evidence that individuals having an internal LOC are more likely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603847
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Buying control? : "locus of control" and the uptake of supplementary health insurance
Bonsang, Eric; Costa-Font, Joan; New, Sonja C. de - 2021
. Drawing on longitudinal data from Germany, we find robust evidence that individuals having an internal LOC are more likely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607206
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Skewed, persistent and high before death : medical spending in Germany
Karlsson, Martin; Klein, Tobias J.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - In: Fiscal studies : the journal of the Institute for … 37 (2016) 3/4, pp. 527-559
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011711435
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Less social health insurance - more private supplementary insurance? : empirical evidence from Germany
Augurzky, Boris (contributor); Tauchmann, Harald (contributor) - 2008
This paper uses individual level data to analyze the effect of changes in the compulsory benefit package of the German statutory health insurance scheme on the demand for private supplementary insurance. In particular, we aim at measuring the effect of excluding dentures from the benefit package...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003725798
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Do optional deductibles reduce the number of doctor visits? : empirical evidence with German dat
Schmitz, Hendrik (contributor) - 2008
Deductibles in health insurance are often regarded as a means to contain health care costs when individuals exhibit moral hazard. However, in the absence of moral hazard, voluntarily chosen deductibles may instead lead to self-selection into different insurance contracts. We use a set of new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003785047
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The impact of private versus social health insurance on offered waiting times in German acute care hospitals
Schwierz, Christoph; Wübker, Ansgar; Kuchinke, Björn A. - 2009
This paper shows that patients with private health insurance (PHI) are being offered significantly shorter waiting times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the higher expected profitability of PHI relative to SHI...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861421
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Health and old age : health insurance status and physician behavior in Germany
Jürges, Hendrik - In: Schmollers Jahrbuch : journal of contextual economics 129 (2009) 2, pp. 297-307
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003848596