Switching gains and health plan price elasticities:20 years of managed competition reforms in The Netherlands
In this paper we estimate health plan price elasticities and financial switching gains for consumers over a 20-year period in which managed competition was introduced in the Dutch health insurance market. The period is characterized by a major health insurance reform in 2006 to provide health insurers with more incentives and tools to compete, and to provide consumers with a more differentiated choice of products. Prior to the reform, in the period 1995–2005, we find a low number of switchers, between 2 and 4% a year, modest average total switching gains of 2 million euros per year and short-t... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2017 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Douven , R , Katona , K , T. Schut , F & Shestalova , V 2017 , ' Switching gains and health plan price elasticities : 20 years of managed competition reforms in The Netherlands ' , European Journal of Health Economics , vol. 18 , no. 8 , pp. 1047-1064 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-017-0876-8 |
Schlagwörter: | Health insurance / Health plan price elasticity / Managed competition / Switching gains |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27619771 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://research.vu.nl/en/publications/31e62b2f-a272-41bd-8f67-7c392f439a8f |