In recent years numerous employers have reformed their health plan by changing the structure of employee contributions …

This paper examines the choice of health care for minor aliments in Japan for patients suffering from thirteen …

This paper examines the choice of health care for minor aliments in Japan for patients suffering from thirteen …

prescription drugs. Although the catastrophic coverage provision under Medicare has been withdrawn, the inclusion of insurance for …

The shares of the public sector in health insurance provision varies enormously from country to country. It is larger … in more redistributive countries. We provide a possible theoretical explanation for these facts: a public health … insurance system, financed by taxes, can be an efficient means of redistribution, complementary to income taxation. This relies …

The Diagnostic Care Group (DCG) model is applied to data from the Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission from fiscal … years 1994-1995 and used to assess the extent of biased selection between one fee-for-service (FFS) plan, one preferred … provider organization, and several health maintenance organizations. Average reported covered expenses in the FFS plan are 2 …

The interaction of insurance and the market for physician services is considered in a model where imperfectly informed …

insurance but admit that some formal or informal mechanisms help households to insure substantially their consumption since … income shocks do not fully transfer in consumption. Risk sharing and consumption insurance achieved by rural households from … full insurance is rejected, there is some scope for Pareto improving risk sharing mechanisms. Actually, markets are found …