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Financing Health Care Delivery

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  • Jonathan Gruber

    (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)

Abstract

I review the key issues that arise in financing health care delivery. I begin by documenting the key features of health care markets that make financing so central in this sector, such as the skewed and unpredictable nature of health care spending and market failures in health care delivery. I then review the key issues that public and private payers face in designing health care markets, from the proper mix of public and private provision to the role of risk bearing for consumers and providers. Finally, I illustrate how these issues manifest in practice by comparing the design of insurance systems in the United States and Canada.

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  • Jonathan Gruber, 2022. "Financing Health Care Delivery," Annual Review of Financial Economics, Annual Reviews, vol. 14(1), pages 209-229, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:anr:refeco:v:14:y:2022:p:209-229
    DOI: 10.1146/annurev-financial-111620-112740
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    Cited by:

    1. Bertrand Achou & Philippe De Donder & Franca Glenzer & Minjoon Lee & Marie-Louise Leroux, 2023. "At Home versus in a Nursing Home: Long-term Care Settings and Marginal Utility," CIRANO Working Papers 2023s-14, CIRANO.
    2. Anderson, David M. & Hoagland, Alex & Zhu, Ed, 2024. "Medical bill shock and imperfect moral hazard," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 236(C).
    3. Lo, Andrew W. & Thakor, Richard T., 2023. "Financial intermediation and the funding of biomedical innovation: A review," Journal of Financial Intermediation, Elsevier, vol. 54(C).

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    Keywords

    health; insurance;

    JEL classification:

    • H51 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Health
    • I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
    • I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health

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