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The demand for private health insurance in the UK has risen rapidly in the last decade. The paper discusses the nature of the demand for private health insurance in a health care market dominated by a public supplier, in which the consumer may neither opt out of his contribution to the National...
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There has been little economic analysis of the private health care industry in Britain and as a result much of the policy debate about its role has been ill-informed and based on rhetoric. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the market for private health care and the demand for private...
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This paper examines the role of social health insurance in four European countries: Germany, Switzerland, France and the Netherlands. It attempts to elucidate the organisational structure, regulation and management of the social insurance schemes, as well as the relationships between the...
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This paper presents the results of a detailed survey designed to explore the factors associated with purchase of private health insurance in England. The survey, a nationally representative survey of the population of England aged 25 to 70, was carried out in the first 4 months of 1987. The...
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