OBJECTIVES: This paper reviews the empirical literature on what characterises individuals
with voluntary private health insurance (VPHI) in universal health care systems and …

Many health insurance systems apply managed competition principles to control costs and
quality of health care. Besides other factors, managed competition relies on a sufficient price …

The Right and the Welfare State studies the welfare state policies of conservative and liberal
governments. These parties have been assumed to be nothing but the welfare-sceptical flip …

Although smaller as a proportion of total population than Western Europe or Japan, almost
15% of Australia's population is aged 65 years and over and expected to increase to nearly …

A basic prediction of theoretical models of insurance is that if consumers have private
information about their risk of suffering a loss there will be a positive correlation between risk …

We would like to thank Roy Harvey and Lesley Russell Wolpe for their helpful comments on
earlier drafts. The opinions in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily …

Background This study aimed to examine the healthcare-seeking (hospital, primary and
preventive care) and healthcare utilisation behaviour of patients with private health …

In 2005, France implemented a gatekeeping reform designed to improve care coordination
and to reduce utilization of specialists' services. Under this policy, patients designate a …

This paper investigates the effects of reducing subsidies for private health insurance on
public sector expenditure for hospital care. An econometric framework using simultaneous …

In countries with dual public and private healthcare systems, individuals are often
incentivized to purchase private health insurance through subsidies and penalty. We use …