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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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In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is …
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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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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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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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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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. Drawing on longitudinal data from Germany, we find robust evidence that individuals having an internal LOC are more likely to …
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. Drawing on longitudinal data from Germany, we find robust evidence that individuals having an internal LOC are more likely to …
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. Drawing on longitudinal data from Germany, we find robust evidence that individuals having an internal LOC are more likely to …
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