In this model we use delay as a tool to reduce demand in a public health care system when the public resources are not sufficient to match demand. Our results show that: 1) the presence of a waiting time implies that politicians might well exploit voters’ unease in order to set rent seeking...

In a recent article which appeared in this journal, Hoel and Saeter propose a model showing that welfare may be improved by introducing delay in public health care. In this note we argue that their model may be used as starting point because of their stringent assumptions. We suggest that the...

In this paper, the use of delay as a tool to improve income redistribution is examined. We assume that people with the highest opportunity cost of waiting address their demand to the private market; if these, as we assume, are the one at the higher end of the income distribution, they contribute...

In this model we use delay as a tool to improve income redistribution. Delay makes people with the highest opportunity cost of waiting leave the public health care market. If these, as we assume, are the ones at the higher end of the income distribution, they are made to pay twice for health...

Quantity rationing is widely used by the traditional literature on public health care expenditure determination as a means to justify the coexistence of the private health care sector. However, this artefact is not suitable for a wide range of health care services that have an "all or nothing"...