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 … evidence of endogeneity between the decision to purchase insurance on the type and intensity of hospital care use. We find some …

hospital care. An econometric framework using simultaneous equation models is developed to analyze the interrelated decisions … are more likely to seek hospital care as a private patient, they do not differ in the intensity of hospital care use …