National Health Insurance Revisited

National health insurance revisited.

Health insurance: tradeoffs revisited.

In two recent papers, [Journal of Health Economics 18(2), 141-152, Journal of Health Economics 18(6), 811-824] Nyman raised some questions about the welfare calculations and conclusions in our earlier paper [Manning and Marquis, Health insurance: the tradeoff between risk pooling and moral hazard, Vol. 15, 1996]. This note discusses the erroneous criticisms in his papers. First, although, we es...

National Health Insurance exposed.

National Health Insurance

Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, and Bureau of Pharmaceutical Affairs, Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Taipei. Received: 16 August 2000. Revised: 8 September 2000. Accepted: 17 October 2000. Reprint requests and correspondence to: Dr. Shan-Chwen Chang, Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Nati...

National Health Insurance Notes

As I promised in my last notes to discuss the question of over-prescribing, I must now briefly consider this difficult problem-for problem it is to every insurance practitioner who endeavours to satisfy patients and at the same time spend his drug allowance economically. The chief cause of the high cost on the Drug Fund is to be found in the Belfast inhabitants' love for a bottle of medicine. I...