Price elasticity and adverse selection in the demand for supplementary health insurance [0.03%]
补充健康保险需求的价格弹性和逆向选择
M S Marquis,C E Phelps
M S Marquis
Probit regression estimates show the effects of the price of insurance, anticipated medical expenditures, and other factors on reported decisions about purchasing hypothetically offered supplementary insurance policies. The demand estimates...
The effect of provider control of Blue Shield plans on health care markets [0.03%]
医疗服务提供商对蓝盾计划的控制对医疗市场的效应
R J Arnould,L M DeBrock
R J Arnould
Blue Shield plans often are granted regulatory advantages by the states in which they operate. Run efficiently, such not-for-profit firms should use these lower costs to eliminate their less advantaged rivals, the commercial insurers. Howev...
E R Becker,F A Sloan
E R Becker
This study compares the performance of three ownership forms of hospitals: for profit, private nonprofit, and public, further classified according to whether or not the hospital is run by a hospital chain. Data come from a 1979 national sur...
Comparative Study
Economic inquiry. 1985 Jan;23(1):21-36. DOI:10.1111/j.1465-7295.1985.tb01750.x 1985
R G Frank
R G Frank
Puzzling results of a positive association between the number of physicians per capita and the level of fees for physician services have been reported in the literature. These results may be due to misspecification of econometric models and...
Substitution in public spending: who pays for Canadian national health insurance? [0.03%]
加拿大全民健康保险的资金来源：谁在付出？
C M Lindsay,B Zycher
C M Lindsay
J H Goddeeris
J H Goddeeris
Concerns have been expressed about the welfare effects of expensive innovations in medical care financed largely through medical insurance. This paper develops a model which considers such issues. It is shown that even if insurance is purch...
S J La Croix,T Getzen
S J La Croix
T G McGuire
T G McGuire
Patients are uncertain of physicians' quality but learn about the quality of particular physicians through experience in treatment. Patients come to trust physicians who have served them well. This paper explores the economic consequences o...
The impact of regulation on pharmaceutical research expenditures: a dynamic approach [0.03%]
监管对制药业研发投入的影响：一种动态方法论视角
S N Wiggins
S N Wiggins
This paper estimates the impact of federal regulation of drug quality on research spending by the pharmaceutical industry. The theoretical approach recognizes that the effects of these regulations on research spending depend upon the reacti...
J L Sindelar
J L Sindelar
This paper extends the analysis of the demand for medical care to an aspect which has previously been ignored: variations in expected, as opposed to experienced, cause of losses of health and the current use of medical care. Losses of healt...