Can Insurance Reduce Catastrophic Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure

Rama Joglekar ()
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Abstract: It is argued that for households below poverty line any expenditure on health is catastrophic as they are unable to attain the subsistence level of consumption. Thus, zero percent is taken as a threshold level to define catastrophic health expenditure and examine the impact of health insurance on probability of incurring catastrophic health expenditure. The study is based on a purposive sample survey covering 1,200 households from Ahmedabad and neighbouring areas. Thus, sample is not representative and results are valid only for the sample. A representative sample survey, namely, World Health Survey, and aim to examine the impact of health insurance on catastrophic health care payments for six Indian states.[IGIDR WP -2008-016].

Keywords: health; poverty; households; OOP; WHO; care; payment; elementary education; purposive sample survey; Indian states; Ahmedabad; social insurance; care provider; demographic expenditure; insurance; consumption; probability; subsistence level; catastrophic; Out-of-Pocket; india; insurance; poor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-09
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