Sammanfattning
We develop a model including many features of health care systems: a limited number of approved treatments of certain qualities, insurance schemes reimbursing costs of a standard service, and nonprofit organizations competing with for-profit suppliers. All the equilibria exhibit quality differentiation, and the nonprofit captures a higher market share. Nonprofits (for-profits) supply the standard service when the quality upgrade induces a sufficiently high (low) increase in production costs. When the nonprofit provides the standard quality, all patients are served. In contrast, in a for-profit duopoly the standard-quality provider chargesa price premium, implying that there are excluded consumers.
Originalspråk | Engelska |
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Referentgranskad vetenskaplig tidskrift | Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics |
Volym | 176 |
Nummer | 2 |
Sidor (från-till) | 243-275 |
Antal sidor | 33 |
ISSN | 0932-4569 |
DOI | |
Status | Publicerad - 12.03.2020 |
MoE-publikationstyp | A1 Originalartikel i en vetenskaplig tidskrift |
Nyckelord
- 511 Nationalekonomi