Most health care systems could improve their efficiency in using physical capital - buildings and equipment. Health care systems in which assets are provided by governments or donated by aid organizations generally have only weak incentives for those assets to be used efficiently. Wrongly...

The aim of the paper is to present new evidence on the relationship between income and health care expenditure allowing for (i) substitution and complementary relationships between private and public health care expenditure, (ii) presence of structural breaks in the dependent variables, and...

Most systems of health care financing in EU member states currently include elements of income redistribution. The paper analyzes the effects of shifting income redistribution entirely to the tax system, while confining public health systems to their insurance role. We argue that this reform...