policy could do more harm than good. Health Savings Accounts led by Republicans narrowly focuses on consumer incentives, and …

Cost-sharing is regarded as an important tool to reduce moral hazard in health insurance. Contrary to standard …

decision. A government may tax the sin good and provide mandatory health insurance. Due to time-inconsistency, the individual … sin good and savings choices in ict internalities. Due to the ex-ante moral hazard of health insurance, sin good …- pled, the government can achieve the first-best outcome using a uniform tax rate and uniform health insurance. Moreover, in …

Deductibles are commonly used to tame increasing health care costs. Numerous studies find that higher deductibles … reduce health care utilization. In this paper we compare utilization in Switzerland between two health care plans with … anything health care expenditures are higher for male individuals with the higher deductible, while for females there are no …

A common misunderstanding of moral hazard emerges from an inaccurate definition of health-care insurance. What we call … health insurance is actually a bundle of two services — insurance for catastrophic care and subsidies for routine care. The …

Existing studies estimate health insurance-induced increases in medical care expenditure by examining medical care …-year medical care consumption that allows for insurance selection, endogenous health transitions, and individual uncertainty about … spending implications of health insurance alternative sets with more and less generous options …

Millions Saved (2016) is a new edition of detailed case studies on the attributable impact of global health programs at … can be used in decision making and to provide further evidence on the extent of health gains produced for the funding … public health successes, finding that large health gains have been achieved in programs that represent good value for money …

Using data from the 2009 China Health and Nutrition Survey, this study investigates China's income-health gradient by … income-health gradient irrespective of whether the income measure is current or long term. Because risky behavior may … attenuate income's positive effects on health, we also analyze the association between income and such health …

Using data from the 2009 China Health and Nutrition Survey, this study investigates China's income-health gradient by … income-health gradient irrespective of whether the income measure is current or long term. Because risky behavior may … attenuate income's positive effects on health, we also analyze the association between income and such health …