Health insurance and the demand for medical care

de Meza, David ORCID: 0000-0002-5638-8310 (1983) Health insurance and the demand for medical care. Journal of Health Economics, 2 (1). pp. 47-54. ISSN 0167-6296

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Identification Number: 10.1016/0167-6296(83)90011-5

Abstract

With rare exceptions the provision of actuarially fair health insurance tends to substantially increase the demand for medical care by redistributing income from the healthy to the sick. This suggests that previous studies which attribute all the extra demand for medical care to moral hazard effects may overestimate the efficiency costs of health insurance.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescriptio...
Additional Information:	© 1983 Elsevier
Divisions:	Management
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Date Deposited:	12 Apr 2011 11:00
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2024 21:51
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/35484

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