Paying for healthcare

Hans Keiding

Chapter 4 in Theoretical Health Economics, 2017, pp 135-185 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: The following sections are included:IntroductionWelfare economics and the market mechanismExternalitiesAllocation with paternalistic preferencesExternal effects and Arrow commoditiesThe public goods problem in healthcareFree riding and Lindahl equilibriaWillingness to payPricing in healthcare provisionPricing under increasing returns to scaleMarginal cost pricingRamsey pricingCost allocationPaying the doctorRegulating a monopoly with unknown costHealthcare contracts under physician agencyPaying the hospitalProspective pricing and DRGCase-mix and qualityProblems

Keywords: Health Economics; Healthcare; Grossman Model; Newhouse-Phelps Model; Dorfman-Steiner; Lindahl Equilibria; Healthcare Pricing; Cost-Effectiveness Analysis; Healthcare Regulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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