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Supplementary private health insurance in selected countries : lessons for EU governments?
Gechert, Sebastian - 2009
quality of service. To test these reasonings, the paper draws empirical evidence from the health systems of Australia, Canada …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872288
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Parallel private health insurance in Australia : a cautionary tale and lessons for Canada
Hurley, Jeremiah E.; Vaithianathan, Rhema; Crossley, … - 2002
) exit to private insurance. Australia provides a particularly promising case study for Canada regarding the dynamics of … parallel systems of public and private finance. This paper examines Australia's experience with parallel finance for inpatient … of the broader political economy associated with parallel systems of finance. Australia's experience provides a number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411845
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Demand for Hospital Care and Private Health Insurance in a Mixed Public-Private System : Empirical Evidence Using a Simultaneous Equation Modeling Approach
Cheng, Terence Chai - 2011
This paper examines the determinants of hospital stay intensity, the decision to seek hospital care as a public or private patient and the decision to purchase private hospital insurance. We describe a theoretical model to motivate the simultaneous nature of these decisions. For the empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130714
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Measuring the Effects of Removing Subsidies for Private Insurance on Public Expenditure for Health Care
Cheng, Terence Chai - 2011
This paper investigates the effects of removing subsidies for private health insurance on public sector expenditure for hospital care. An econometric framework using simultaneous equation models is developed to analyze the interrelated decisions on the intensity and type of health care use and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118313
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Parallel Private Health Insurance in Australia : A Cautionary Tale and Lessons for Canada
Hurley, Jeremiah; Vaithianathan, Rhema; Crossley, Thomas F. - 2021
) exit to private insurance. Australia provides a particularly promising case study for Canada regarding the dynamics of … parallel systems of public and private finance. This paper examines Australia's experience with parallel finance for inpatient … of the broader political economy associated with parallel systems of finance. Australia's experience provides a number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320488
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Private Health Insurance in Australia : A Case Study
Colombo, Francesca - 2003
-functioning health care system should be based on a mixed system of insurance and provision, Australia’s policy makers have encouraged …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445113
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The Impact of Private Hospital Insurance on the Utilization of Hospital Care in Australia
Eldridge, Damien; Onur, Ilke; Velamuri, Malathi; Koc, … - 2013
We use the 2004-'05 wave of the Australian National Health Survey to estimate the impact of private hospital insurance on the propensity for hospitalization as a private patient. We employ instrumental-variable methods to account for the endogeneity of supplementary private hospital insurance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014156369
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Combining Risk Adjustment with Risk Sharing in Health Plan Payment Systems : Private Health Insurance in Australia
Henriquez, Josefa; Kleef, Richard Cornelis van; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
ill). This paper shows how a payment system based only on risk sharing (like in Australia), is improved by combining risk … sharing with risk adjustment. Using Australia's private health insurance market as a case study, we compare and assess the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247974
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Modelling Dynamic Choice : Private Health Insurance in Australia
Salale, Vineta; Doiron, Denise; Fiebig, Denzil G.; … - 2008
This paper investigates the role of family formation in particular the effect of children - actual and desired - on the purchase of private health insurance. A unique panel data set of young Australian women (under 30 years old) from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health [ALSWH] is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014026025
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Impact of time of diagnosis on out-of-pocket costs of cancer treatment, a side effect of health insurance design in Australia
Naghsh Nejad, Maryam; Van Gool, Kees - 2024
The Extended Medicare Safety Net (EMSN) in Australia was designed to provide financial assistance to patients with high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014502936