We study the link between illness severity and the use of public health care services by the privately insured under a … public health system. Our theoretical model shows that this relationship will depend on the prioritization established by the … public health authorities, the cost of waiting and the private sector's risk selection behavior. In our empirical exercise …

This paper extracts the policy implications from ENEPRI Research Report Nos. 28, entitled Health and Morbidity in the …, Health Status and Determinants of Health Expenditure) for the European Commission …