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The share of privately paid medical care is steadily increasing. Polish patients pay immediately for single services and may also privately conclude the contracts for medical insurance or subscription (steady access to complex private medical care). The aim of this paper is to draw the reader's...
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. Concerning these factors, only reform concepts on the expenditure side can serve as a means of coping with the financial crisis …. Reform proposals of this kind comprise a (partial) privatization in conjunction with social subsidies. However, not much …
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Hospital markets are often characterised by price regulation and the existence of different ownership types. Using a Hotelling framework, this paper analyses the effect of different objectives of the hospitals on quality, profits, and overall welfare in a price regulated duopoly with symmetric...
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these factors, onlyreform concepts on the expenditure side can serve as a means of coping with the financialcrisis. Reform …
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Hospital markets are often characterised by price regulation and the existence of different ownership types. Using a Hotelling framework, this paper analyses the effect of different objectives of the hospitals on quality, profits, and overall welfare in a price regulated duopoly with symmetric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003894806
We reexamine the recent, well-publicized claim that “rapid mass privatisation [of state-owned enterprises]…was a crucial determinant of differences in adult mortality trends in postcommunist countries” (Stuckler, King and McKee, 2009). Our analysis shows that the estimated correlation of...
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Universal health coverage (UHC) is an integral part of the United Nations' sustainable development goals. The private sector plays a prominent role in achieving UHC, being the primary source of essential medicines for many people. However, many private healthcare facilities in low- and...
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relaxed entry barriers for private hospitals. We assess the impact of the pro-market reform on hospital performance using a … differences-in-differences approach. We find that the pro-market reform decreased medical prices and expenditures, improved self …-reported health outcomes, and reduced search time and costs for patients. We show that after the reform, Suqian residents had greater …
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commencement of the reform process, it is considered pertinent to examine how the affected sectors have performed with respect to …
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As COVID-19 struck the United States in March 2020, sending the nation into lockdown, worry about the fate of private schools was high. These schools, which only survive if people can pay for them, seemed to face deep trouble. Many private schools have thin financial margins even in good...
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