Health insurance

Hans Keiding

Chapter 5 in Theoretical Health Economics, 2017, pp 187-231 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: The theory of health insurance, to which we turn in this chapter, is one of the central parts of health economics, and most of it applies to healthcare systems in all countries, independent of whether it is organized as voluntary or mandatory insurance or as a tax-financed government healthcare system. The same problems occur, since they are related to fundamental market failures rather than to the way in which people pay for their future care…

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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