An Empirical Analysis of Price Elasticity of the Demand for Medical Care Services in Korean National Health Insurance Program / 예방의학회지
Korean Journal of Preventive Medicine
; : 450-461, 1995.
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in Ko
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ABSTRACT
This paper tested by using Micro TSP, an empirical econometric analysis to approve officially a hypothesis of price elasticity of the demand for medical care services in Korean national medical insurance and the economic effect of health care delivery system with time-series datas of Medical Insurance statistical yearbook(1981-1993). The results suggest that the korean medical insurance system shows moral hazard due to the change of coinsurance and the economic effect according to intervention of the health care delivery system, but it is different by insurers regardless of the same structure of the medical insurance scheme.
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Database:
WPRIM
Main subject:
Deductibles and Coinsurance
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Delivery of Health Care
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Elasticity
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Insurance
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Insurance Carriers
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National Health Programs
Type of study:
Health_economic_evaluation
Aspects:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
Language:
Ko
Journal:
Korean Journal of Preventive Medicine
Year:
1995
Document type:
Article