Welfare properties of restrictions to health care services based on cost effectiveness

Laura Levaggi and Rosella Levaggi

Working Papers from University of Brescia, Department of Economics

Abstract: In this note we explore the welfare properties of the cost effectiveness criterion as an instrument to improve the appropriateness of health care. We show that such instrument is optimal only under specific assumptions relating to the shape of the welfare function and the utility of health care.

Date: 2009
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