Private health insurance and the problem of moral hazard (Prywatne ubezpieczenia zdrowotne a problem pokusy naduzycia)

Iwona Laskowska ()
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Iwona Laskowska: Uniwersytet Lodzki, Katedra Ekonometrii Przestrzennej

Problemy Zarzadzania, 2015, vol. 13, issue 53, 58-68

Abstract: In most European countries general health insurance systems are supplemented by voluntary health insurance purchased on a commercial basis. The expansion of the private health insurance market is potentially beneficial for the functioning of the health protection system and for the patients themselves. At the same time, however, particularly voluntary health insurance has certain weaknesses that may make it less effective than it could be. One of the major problems is moral hazard understood as a risk of excessive, unjustified use of medical services that bears serious economic consequences. The article focuses on moral hazard related to health insurance. In the first part of the article, the nature of the problem is discussed, as well as conclusions for European countries arising from the available studies. The second part provides insights into private health insurance in Poland.

Keywords: private health insurance; moral hazard (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I13 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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