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Does Abolishing User Fees Lead to Improved Health Status? Evidence from Post-Apartheid South Africa
Tanaka, Shinsuke - 2014
Whether user fees for basic health services should be charged or abolished for the poor has recently been debated. This study examines the impact on child health status of removing user fees in South Africa. Our main innovation is to exploit plausibly exogenous variation in access to free...
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Chapter 31 Health care and the public sector
Cutler, David M. - In: Handbook of public economics : volume 4, (pp. 2143-2243). 2002
This chapter summarizes the many aspects of public policy for health care. I first consider government policy affecting individual behaviors. Government intervention to change individual actions such as smoking and drinking is frequently justified on externality grounds. External costs of...
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In absolute or relative terms? : how framing prices affects the consumer price sensitivity of health plan choice
Schmitz, Hendrik; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2011
This paper provides field evidence on (a) how price framing affects consumers' decision to switch health insurance plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by policymakers through simple regulatory efforts. In 2009, in order to foster competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009524386
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Beitragssatz, Kassenwettbewerb und Gesundheitsreform : eine empirische Analyse : an empirical analysis
Andersen, Hanfried H.; Grabka, Markus M.; Schwarze, Johannes - 2007
The premium rates paid for statutory health insurance in Germany play a key role in the competition among health care … information about premium rates of all statutory health insurance funds in Germany. Applying a multinomial logit model, we show … used to evaluate the future developments in statutory health insurance in Germany, assuming that customer mobility will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665855
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In absolute or relative terms? : how framing prices affects the consumer price sensitivity of health plan choice
Schmitz, Hendrik; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2011
This paper provides field evidence on (a) how price framing affects consumers' decision to switch health insurance plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by policymakers through simple regulatory efforts. In 2009, in order to foster competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009407561
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The price sensitivity of health plan choice : evidence from retirees in the German social health insurance
Wuppermann, Amelie; Bauhoff, Sebastian; Grabka, Markus M. - 2014
We investigate two determinants of the price sensitivity of health plan demand: the size of the choice set and the salience of premium differences. Using variation in both features in the German Social Health Insurance (SHI) and information on health plan switches of retirees in the German Socio...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010396040
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In absolute or relative terms? : how framing prices affects the consumer price sensitivity of health plan choice
Schmitz, Hendrik; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2011
This paper provides fi eld evidence on (a) how price framing aff ects consumers' decision to switch health insurance plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by policymakers through simple regulatory efforts. In 2009, in order to foster competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580993
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In Absolute or Relative Terms? How Framing Prices Affects the Consumer Price Sensitivity of Health Plan Choice
Schmitz, Hendrik - 2011
This paper provides field evidence on (a) how price framing affects consumers' decision to switch health insurance plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by policymakers through simple regulatory efforts. In 2009, in order to foster competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117310
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In Absolute or Relative Terms? How Framing Prices Affects the Consumer Price Sensitivity of Health Plan Choice
Schmitz, Hendrik - 2012
This paper provides field evidence on how price framing affects consumers' decision to switch health insurance plans and how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by policymakers through simple regulatory efforts. In 2009, in order to foster competition among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113019
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In Absolute or Relative Terms? How Framing Prices Affects the Consumer Price Sensitivity of Health Plan Choice
Schmitz, Hendrik - 2012
This paper provides field evidence on (a) how price framing affects consumers' decision to switch health insurance plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by policymakers through simple regulatory efforts. In 2009, in order to foster competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113068