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Explaining individual, regional, and provider variation in health care spending is of enormous value to policymakers, but is often hampered by the lack of individual level detail in universal public health systems because budgeted spending is often not attributable to specific individuals. Even...
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Between 1997 and 2000 the Australian government introduced three policy reforms that aimed to increase private health insurance coverage and reduce public hospital demand. The first provided income-based tax incentives; the second gave an across-the-board 30% premium subsidy; and the third...
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We develop and estimate a model of individual decisions to enrol in private health insurance in Australia in order to understand the effect of three specific government programs that changed the structure of premiums facing consumers. The three reforms encompass incomebased subsidies to...
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