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Universal health insurance under a dual system, evidence of adverse selection against the public sector: the case of Chile

Bronfman, Javier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper examines health insurance choice and its dynamics using panel data from Chile’s National Socio Economic Characterization Survey 1996-2001-2006. Evidence indicates that private insurance is losing customers to the public sector. Two different logistic models are used to explain the...

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Health Insurance Choice, Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection: A Study of the Chilean Case Using Panel Data

Bronfman, Javier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Using panel data from Chile’s National Socio Economic Characterization Survey 1996-2001- 2006, this article examines health insurance choice and its dynamics. The article takes advantage of the panel data to examine the dynamics and determinants of insurance change. Evidence indicates that...

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The advantages and disadvantages of needs-based resource allocation in integrated health systems and market systems of health care provider reimbursement

Gugushvili, Alexi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper reviews the vital health care resource allocation in integrated systems and contrasts it with the market-based health care resource provisions. It is believed that among several alternatives a method of centrally managed needs-based resource distribution is best suited for universally...

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Are Health Systems of Central European Countries the Least Efficient? A Cross Country Comparative Study

Forgacs, Anna; Lisanyi, Judit Beke - In: European Research Studies Journal XIV (2011) 4, pp. 27-38

The paper considers the characteristics of efficient health systems. First, indicators describing the health status of the population, then the determinant factors, finally their ratio was considered as the indicator of health system efficiency. The analysis indicates that Israeli health system...

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HEALTHCARE FINANCING IN RECESSION

Mihart, Bianca - In: Revista Tinerilor Economisti (The Young Economists Journal) 1 (2011) 17, pp. 9-14

The current, unfolding, financial recession has greatly affected almost all countries regardless of the level of economic development. Unlike prior situations, the economic crisis that broke out in the late 2008 began in developed countries later spreading to the rest of the world. Its effects...

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The effects of rebate contracts on the health care system

Graf, Julia - 2012

Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) increasingly gain in importance with respect to the supply of pharmaceutical products and frequently use multiple or exclusive rebate contracts to exercise market power. Based on a Hotelling model of horizontal and vertical product differentiation, we...

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Supplier discretion over provision : theory and an application to medical care

Malcomson, James M. - 2005

Suppliers who are better informed than purchasers, such as physicians treating insured patients, often have discretion over what to provide. This paper shows how, when the purchaser observes what is supplied but can observe neither recipient type nor the actual cost incurred, optimal provision...

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Hospital procurement with concentrated sellers : a case study of hip prostheses

Davies, Charlotte; Lorgelly, Paula K. - 2013

Procurement within the NHS is attracting increasing research and policy interest. However, most of the emphasis has … medical devices very little is publicly documented about procurement and even less about the supplying industry. This paper … uses a case study of artificial hip prostheses to indirectly explore how procurement choices are made within the NHS. We …

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Profiting from Most-Favored Customer Procurement Rules : Evidence from Medicaid

Feng, Josh - 2020

” clauses (MFCC) in procurement rules can increase private-market prices and profits, even when suppliers have significant …

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Procurement Institutions and Essential Drug Supply in Low and Middle-Income Countries

Wang, Lucy Xiaolu; Zahur, Nahim - 2021

International procurement institutions have played an important role in drug supply. This paper studies price, delivery …, and shipment time of essential drugs supplied in 106 developing countries from 2007-2017 across four procurement … institution types. We find that pooled procurement institutions lower prices: pooling internationally is most effective for small …

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