The demand for private health insurance: do waiting lists matter?

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

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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
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:	01 Nov 2024 05:13
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/1577

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