Besley, Timothy 
ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Hall, John and Preston, Ian
(1999)
The demand for private health insurance: do waiting lists matter?
Journal of Public Economics, 72 (2).
155 - 181.
ISSN 0047-2727
Identification Number: 10.1016/S0047-2727(98)00108-X
Abstract
In spite of government dominance in financing health care in many countries, the private health care sector remains important. This is true even though most public provision is heavily subsidized, and in many cases free, at source. Britain's National Health Service fails to drive out the private sector because it suffers from certain inflexibilities. Here, we show that longer waiting lists for NHS treatment are associated with greater purchases of private health insurance.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-p... |
| Additional Information: | © 1999 Elsevier Science S.A. |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HG Finance R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
| JEL classification: | H - Public Economics > H4 - Publicly Provided Goods > H40 - General I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I1 - Health > I10 - General |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Apr 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 22:09 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/1577 |
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