Health Care, Insurance, and the Contract Choice Effect

Richard Dusansky and Çagatay Koç

Economic Inquiry, 2006, vol. 44, issue 1, pages 121-127

Abstract: This article explores the interdependence between the individual consumer's demand for medical care and choice of health insurance coverage, with emphasis on its implications for demand behavior and empirical analysis. We show that an increase in the price of medical care has two effects on demand, the usual response of reduced quantity demanded and a health insurance contract choice effect resulting from the consumer's incentive to change insurance plan. The contract choice effect, widely neglected in studies of medical care demand, alters both the quantitative and qualitative predictive properties of the consumer's demand for medical services. (JEL D11, D81, I11) Copyright 2006, Oxford University Press.

JEL-codes: D11 D81 I11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)

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