The problem of the uninsured - those eschewing the purchase of health insurance policies - cannot be fully understood … publicly and charitably-financed safety-net health care system. This paper tackles the problem of the uninsured by formulating … which these non-market alternatives can account for the fraction of the non-elderly adults who are uninsured, and estimate …

demand for medical care. It considers the insurance demand of different types of agents: naive individuals, individuals who … are able to commit to medical care demand and sophisticated individuals. Furthermore, it raises the question of whether …

Does medical insurance affect health care demand and in the end contribute to improvements in the health status … does not affect health care demand in a significant manner. Counterfactuals suggest that full insurance coverage of the … of a local clinic. This effect is particularly strong in urban areas. In case of a severe injury hospital consultation is …

probability of receiving public ambulatory care by 2.7 ppt (5%) and of admission to a public hospital by 1 ppt (18%). OOP …

Regulation fostering Managed Care alternatives in health insurance is spreading. This work reports on an experiment … willingness to pay. Marked preference heterogeneity is an argument against regulation imposing uniformity of contract in Swiss …

We evaluate the demand for long term care (LTC) insurance prospects in a stated preference context, by means of the … techniques have not been used yet for studying the demand for LTC services. In this paper these methods are first of all used in …

to their ages. We show that the likelihood that near-elderly inpatients are uninsured continuously declines until the … those covered by Medicaid or private insurance, the uninsured patients are more likely to be admitted into hospitals as …

We consider physicians with fixed capacity levels. If a physician's capacity exceeds demand, she may have an incentive … to overtreat, i.e., she may provide unnecessary treatments to use up idle capacity. By contrast, with excess demand she …