Willingness to pay for health insurance among the elderly population in Germany

Jens-Oliver Bock (), Dirk Heider, Herbert Matschinger, Hermann Brenner, Kai-Uwe Saum, Walter Haefeli and Hans-Helmut König

The European Journal of Health Economics, 2016, vol. 17, issue 2, 149-158

Abstract: The relatively large extent of average WTP for health insurance indicates that the elderly would probably accept higher contributions to SHI rather than policy efforts to reduce contributions. The identified determinants of WTP might indicate that elderly generally approve the principle of solidarity of the SHI with contributions depending on income rather than morbidity. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016

Keywords: WTP; Contingent valuation method; Elderly; Health insurance; I130 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/s10198-014-0663-8

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