Patient Mobility, Health Care Quality, Welfare And Regulation

Alexander Karpov

HSE Working papers from National Research University Higher School of Economics

Abstract: This paper justifies unequal health care quality in a model with two regions and patients differentiated by location and quality perception. Efficient distribution with unequal healthcare quality arises when there are low travel and/or quality provision costs. If costs are sufficiently low, then both regions win from inequality. Lump-sum transfers and price regulatory policies restore an efficient solution.

Keywords: horizontal and vertical differentiation; health care quality; health care inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I1 L1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2014
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Published in WP BRP Series: Economics / EC, October 2014, pages 1-20

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