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 Although the catastrophic coverage provision under Medicare has been withdrawn, the inclusion of insurance for …

This paper deals with the phenomenon of risk-selection and its appearance in the german compulsory health insurance …

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 …

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 investigates the impact of health risk on insurance contract with hazard moral. We use a bi …-dimensional utility function (wealth and health status). We prove that the type of health risk influences the equilibrium of insurance … market. A full coverage is possible with moral hazard. Finally, the link between health risk and co-payment can be invalided. …

central problems in public finance, including the optimal structure of health insurance and optimal life cycle savings. In …If the marginal utility of consumption depends on health status, this will affect the economic analysis of a number of … this paper, we describe the promises and challenges of various approaches to estimating the effect of health on the …

central problems in public finance, including the optimal structure of health insurance and optimal life cycle savings. In …If the marginal utility of consumption depends on health status, this will affect the economic analysis of a number of … this paper, we describe the promises and challenges of various approaches to estimating the effect of health on the …