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A common approach to avoid risk selection in health insurance markets is to define and enforce a community-rated basic benefit package. The market for complementary insurance is usually completely separate from the market for basic health insurance. In Switzerland, however, the basic benefit...
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Dieser Beitrag entwickelt einen Vorschlag zur indikationsspezifischen Kosten-Nutzen-Bewertung. Zentrales Konzept ist ein sozialer Gesundheitsindex, der die Leistung des Gesundheitswesens misst. Er berücksichtigt nicht nur das Niveau der Gesundheit in der Bevölkerung, sondern auch deren...
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Seit 1981 besteht in Chile ein privates Krankenversicherungssystem, dem 1995 über ein Viertel der Bevölkerung angehörte. Diese Arbeit untersucht dieses System aus ökonomischer Sicht. Im Mittelpunkt der Analyse stehen die Anreizwirkungen staatlicher Vorschriften für die Gestaltung privater...
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This paper examines the trade-off between risk allocation and quality supply for an insurance monopolist when individuals face two kinds of risk related to health. First, they may suffer an ordinary monetary loss. Second, they are subject to uncertain premiums because their type may change. We...
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Premium subsidies have been advocated as an alternative to social health insurance. These subsidies are paid if expenditure on health insurance exceeds a given share of income. In this paper, we examine whether this approach is superior to social insurance from a welfare perspective. We show...
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We analyze the effects of a permanent increase in life expectancy and of a permanent decline in the rate of population growth on intergenerational redistribution in a pay-as-you-go pension system with a constant contribution or constant replacement rate. We show that under these policies both...
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