Social health insurance in the Philippines: do the poor really benefit?

Salaheddine El Omari () and Mahmoud Karasneh
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Salaheddine El Omari: Qatar University
Mahmoud Karasneh: Qatar University

Journal of Economics and Finance, 2021, vol. 45, issue 1, No 8, 187 pages

Abstract: Abstract Developing countries have spent a tremendous amount of time and money on social health insurance programs to give the low-income population free access to health care services. Standard economic theory predicts that people use care services more frequently and regularly when they are free. In this paper, we show that providing free access to health services might not be enough to enhance the utilization of health care by indigents.

Keywords: Social health insurance; Healthcare access; Health care utilization; Impact evaluation; Indigents; Philippines (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I13 I15 O11 O53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/s12197-020-09525-5

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