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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...

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The effect of private health insurance on medical care utilization and self-assessed health in Germany

Hullegie, Patrick; Klein, Tobias J. - 2010

In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is …

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A Note on Health Insurance and Growth

Bräuninger, Michael - 2003

This paper compares public health care with private health insurance in an overlapping generations endogenous growth model. It is shown that economic growth is higher when there is a private health insurance.

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Supplementary private health insurance in selected countries : lessons for EU governments?

Gechert, Sebastian - 2009

A famous idea to maintain affordable health expenditures is to cut back statutory health insurance (SHI) to a basic insurance and to introduce supplementary private health insurance (PHI), permitted to cover the remaining benefits and to apply managed care mechanisms. The measure is supposed to...

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Solving the Premium Risk Problem, Insurer Switches, and Transfers of Aging Provisions

Meier, Volker - In: CESifo DICE Report 01 (2003) 3, pp. 20-23

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Effect of type of insurance and income on waiting time for outpatient care

Roll, Kathrin; Stargardt, Tom; Schreyögg, Jonas - 2011

This paper analyzes the impact of type of insurance, income, and reason for appointment on waiting time for an appointment and waiting time in the physician's practice in the outpatient sector. Data were obtained from a German patient survey conducted between 2007 and 2009. We differentiated...

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Crowding out Informal Care? Evidence from a Social Experiment in Germany

Arntz, Melanie; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2008

the standard home care programs of the German long-term care insurance. The evaluation makes use of a long-run social …

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Short-term training programs for immigrants: do effects differ from natives and why?

Aldashev, Alisher; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - 2010

welfare recipients in Germany. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between both groups and what might …

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Temporary extra jobs for immigrants: Merging lane to employment or dead-end road in welfare?

Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - 2010

We evaluate the effects of the most frequently used German welfare-to-work program on the employment chances of immigrant welfare recipients. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between immigrants and natives and what might cause these potential differences. Our results...

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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 …

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