The health effects of demand side cost sharing in European health insurance

Jan Boone

No 17799, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: The rationale for demand side cost sharing in health insurance is to deter patients from using low value care. But if agents are cash constrained, demand side cost sharing can lead them to postpone or forgo valuable treatments. We use data on European (NUTS 2) regions to show that the interaction between poverty rate and out-of-pocket payments leads to unmet medical needs and higher mortality.

JEL-codes: I11 I13 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-01
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