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Health insurance

In: Theoretical Health Economics

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  • Hans Keiding

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The theory of health insurance, to which we turn in this chapter, is one of the central parts of health economics, and most of it applies to healthcare systems in all countries, independent of whether it is organized as voluntary or mandatory insurance or as a tax-financed government healthcare system. The same problems occur, since they are related to fundamental market failures rather than to the way in which people pay for their future care…

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  • Hans Keiding, 2017. "Health insurance," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Theoretical Health Economics, chapter 5, pages 187-231, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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    Keywords

    Health Economics; Healthcare; Grossman Model; Newhouse-Phelps Model; Dorfman-Steiner; Lindahl Equilibria; Healthcare Pricing; Cost-Effectiveness Analysis; Healthcare Regulation;
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    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health

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