Health insurance and the welfare of health care consumers
Article Abstract:
An analysis of the effects of introducing a conventional health insurance reveals that its introduction would drive down consumer welfare. Managed health care is somewhat unique because of certain degree of flexibility that allows for effective cost management of health care. Flexibility of costs is removed in introducing a conventional health insurance thus resulting in decreased financial management capabilities.
Publication Name: The Journal of Public Economics
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0047-2727
Year: 1997
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Tax preferences for fringe benefits and workers' eligibility for employer health insurance
Article Abstract:
The impact of tax preferences for health insurance provided by employers on employee eligibility for such insurance is examined in detail. There is a positive tax effect on eligibility.
Publication Name: The Journal of Public Economics
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0047-2727
Year: 2000
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Public policy and health insurance choices of the elderly: evidence from the medicare buy-in program
Article Abstract:
The impact of the availability of Medicaid on decisions regarding health insurance for the aged is examined in detail.
Publication Name: The Journal of Public Economics
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0047-2727
Year: 2000
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Containing health care expenditures for State and Local Government entities. Governmental contract auditing: best practices from New York city's metropolitan transportation authority
- Abstracts: Relative income concerns and the rise in married women's employment. Welfare for the elderly: the effects of Supplemental Security Income on pre-retirement labor supply
- Abstracts: Compulsory savings in the welfare state. Public pensions, unemployment insurance, and growth. The political feasibility of pension reform options: the case of Switzerland
- Abstracts: Environmental quality and pollution-augmenting technological change in a two-sector endogenous growth model. Tax reform and the Dutch labor market: an applied general equilibrium approach
- Abstracts: A neglected welfare cost of monopoly - and most other product market distortions. Political structure, taxes, and trade