Lien, Hsien-Ming; Chou, Shin-Yi; Liu, Jin-Tan - In: Journal of Health Economics 27 (2008) 5, pp. 1208-1223
This paper compares program expenditure and treatment quality of stroke and cardiac patients between 1997 and 2000 across hospitals of various ownership types in Taiwan. Because Taiwan implemented national health insurance in 1995, the analysis is immune from problems arising from the complex...