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Healthcare Economist
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Self-protection and insurance

Typically, economists when economists look at the health insurance market, they focus on the insurance side of it. By this I mean to define insurance as the purchase of a product which will...

Started in Healthcare Economist • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: economics - general, health insurance, optimal ins (theory), prevention, self-protection

Healthcare Economist
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Search Frictions in Employer-Based Insurance Markets

Despite much public rhetoric, why is preventative and chronic care so poor in the U.S.? The easy answer is that patients switch plans so frequently that insurance companies who invest in...

Started in Healthcare Economist • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: optimal ins (theory), academic articles

Healthcare Economist
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Optimal Contracts for Health Services in the Presence of Waiting Times and Asymmetric Information

Should hospitals with long waiting times have higher or lower budget transfers? Offering hospitals who have low wait times more money will increase a hospital’s incentives to decrease wait...

Started in Healthcare Economist • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: hospitals, optimal ins (theory), international health care systems, academic articles

Healthcare Economist
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Physicians’ contracts, treatment decisions and diagnosis accuracy

What is the optimal way to pay physicians? If there were a singular variable ‘health’ that could be easily measured, patients could pay physicians for each unit of health they receive. ...

Started in Healthcare Economist • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: optimal ins (theory)

Healthcare Economist
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Tax-preferred health savings accounts

Health savings accounts (HSAs) have been a major point of contention for health care reformers. Supporters claim that HSAs can reduce health care costs by decreasing the moral hazard problem...

Started in Healthcare Economist • 2 years ago • 0 responses
Tags: optimal ins (theory), hsa

Healthcare Economist
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Increase copays and increase medical spending?

Most economists believe that increasing the price of an item will decrease demand for the item. Health care is no different from any other good. If you increase the copayment or coinsurance rate,...

Started in Healthcare Economist • 2 years ago • 0 responses
Tags: academic articles, health insurance, pharmaceuticals, optimal ins (theory)