Many health economists demand more competition in the health care system. They focus on the competition between …

Physicians and pharmacists in Taiwan both prescribed and dispensed drugs; many elderly people considered the two types … citizens and a separation policy (SP) that forbids physicians from dispensing and pharmacists from prescribing drugs. I find … visited pharmacists become more likely to also visit physicians after NHI was implemented. On the other hand, through legal …

Physician compensation accounts for about one-fifth of all Canadian healthcare spending. But physicians’ decisions …, particularly those made by primary care doctors, are the conduit for the majority of the system’s costs. The incentives physicians … could be extended so that primary care physicians would keep track of the costs of their referrals and prescribed treatments …

times and clinical quality: average demand elasticity with respect to own waiting times and mortality is estimated to be - 0 …