Health economists have studied the determinants of the expected value of health status as a function of medical and non … form of a reduced variability of health status. Using the standard deviation of life expectancy in 24 OECD countries … between 1960 and 2005, a 10 percent increase of health care expenditure is associated with a decrease of an estimated 0 …

treatment Stabilization prevents the worsening of the disease, bringing dementia to a standstill. Cure restores patient health …

Elements of regulation inherent in most social health insurance systems are a uniform package of benefits and uniform … relationship between age and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for additional options in Swiss social health insurance. Through discrete …

In mixed health care systems a crucial condition for the success of Managed Care (MC) plans is to win over a su …

-to-accept (WTA) for reform options in Swiss health care and health insurance are used to provide independent information with regard … premium) are embedded in widely differing choice sets. Experiment A contains rather radical health system reform options …

Health insurance is potentially subject to risk selection, i.e. adverse selection on the part of consumers and cream … skimming on the part of insurers. Adverse selection models predict that competitive health insurers can eschew high … health insurance policies with deductibles in excess of the legal minimum do indeed serve as an instrument of risk selection …

measures willingness to pay for health insurance attributes in Germany and the Netherlands. Since the Dutch DCE was carried out … right after the 2006 health reform, which made citizens explicitly choose a health insurance contract, two research … the cost of decision making associated with choice of a health insurance contract. …