Oppdragsgivers prosjektnr.:
Frisch prosjekt: 4101 - Økonomi og helse
Deductibles in Health Insurance: Pay or Pain?
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Forfattere:
Asheim, Geir B., Anne Wenche Eblem and Tore Nilssen
År:
2003
Referanse:
International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics
3, 253-266Sammendrag (engelsk)
We study a health-insurance market where individuals are offered coverage against both medical expenditures and losses in income due to illness. Individuals vary in their level of innate ability and their probability of falling ill. If there is private information about the probability of illness and an individual’s innate ability is sufficiently low, we find that competitive insurance contracts yield screening partly in the form of co-payment, i.e., a deductible in pay, and partly in the form of reduced medical treatment, i.e., a deductible in pain.
Nøkkelord:
health insurance, adverse selection, deductibles
JEL:
I11, D82
Prosjekt info:
Oppdragsgiver: Norges forskningsrådOppdragsgivers prosjektnr.:
Frisch prosjekt: 4101 - Økonomi og helse
Kontakt:
anne.w.emblem@hia.no
