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- At the macroeconomic level, policymakers decide on budgets, staffing, cost-effectiveness thresholds, clinical guidelines and insurance payments; at the microeconomic level, healthcare professionals decide on whom to treat, what the appropriate treatment is, how much time and effort should each patient receive and how urgent the need for care is.
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By applying economic theories of consumer, producer and social choice, health economics aims to understand the behavior of individuals, health care providers, public and private organizations, and governments in decision-making.
May 4, 2020 · An on-going discussion has been centered on whether macroeconomic indicators including tax revenue, inflation and GDP influence health care costs for the fulfilments of the universal health coverage. To our knowledge, few studies have used macro-economic data to examine the trend of health expenses in the emerging economies [ 24 ].
- Lu Lin Zhou, Sabina Ampon-Wireko, Ebenezer Wireko Brobbey, Lamini Dauda, Joseph Owusu-Marfo, Arielle...
- 10.3390/healthcare8020123
- 2020
- Healthcare (Basel). 2020 Jun; 8(2): 123.
- 1a The Prevalence of Externalities
- 1b The Difficulty of Monitoring Quality
- 1c The Insurance Market and Its Imperfections
- moral hazard
- adverse selection
- 1d Healthcare as a Right
- 1e The Rules Governing the Healthcare Marketplace
- Seller
- How an Insurer Changes a Market
- 2 Key Facts about the Healthcare System
- Baumol’s Cost Disease
- 3 Conclusion: The Policy Debate over Healthcare
As you may recall from Chapter 10, market outcomes may be inefficient when there are externalities. To recap: An externality arises when a person engages in an activity that influences the well-being of a bystander but neither pays nor receives compensation for that effect. If the impact on the bystander is adverse, it is called a negative external...
In most markets, consumers know what they want, and after a transaction is com-pleted, they can judge whether they are happy with what they got. Healthcare is different. When you get sick, you may not know what the best treatment is. You rely on the advice of a physician, who has years of specialized training. And even with hindsight, you cannot re...
Because people don’t know when they are going to get sick or what kind of med-ical treatments they will need, spending on healthcare is unpredictable. This uncertainty, and how people respond to it, is a key reason why we have the health institutions that we do.
the tendency of a person who is imperfectly monitored to engage in dishonest or otherwise undesirable behavior Adverse Selection The second problem that impedes the operation of insur-ance markets is adverse selection: If customers differ in their relevant attributes (such as whether they have a chronic disease) and those differences are known to...
the tendency for the mix of unobserved attributes to become undesirable from the standpoint of an uninformed party group of customers than expected, the company has higher costs and therefore has to raise the price of insurance. The higher price now induces the next health-iest group of people to drop insurance coverage, which drives up the cost ...
Normally, when some people don’t buy a good or service, perhaps because they think it costs too much given their income, that outcome is not a major problem for society. For example, suppose that a ticket to a hit Broadway show becomes expensive and lower-income consumers choose other forms of entertainment. We may lament that good theater is not ...
The importance of health insurance, whether provided by private companies or the government, requires that the market for healthcare work differently than most other markets in the economy. The typical market—say, the market for ice cream—looks like panel (a) of Figure 1. The market has buyers and sellers. A seller offers a good or service at a pr...
Good or service (b) Model of a healthcare market with an insurer
In a typical market, shown in panel (a), a seller delivers a good or service to a buyer, who in exchange pays the seller a market- determined price. In a healthcare market, shown in panel (b), the provider delivers healthcare to the patient, but the provider is paid by an insurer (either the government or a private company). This arrangement requ...
Now that we understand the main economic forces at work, let’s look at some data that describe the U.S. healthcare system. We first examine what we get from it, as measured by how long people live. We then see how much healthcare costs us, how much other nations pay, and how we pay the bill.
“Because labor markets across different sectors are con-nected, rising productivity in manufacturing leads the cost of labor-intensive services—such as education and health care—to rise.” What do economists say?
This module has introduced some of the facts and economic insights useful in understanding the market for healthcare. Most of these ideas are widely accepted by the economists who study healthcare. Despite this consensus, there is ongoing debate among U.S. policymakers about what role the govern-ment should play in the healthcare system. Those on t...
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Feb 28, 2022 · Health economics as a discipline is described using six questions to be answered: Is health different from all other goods? Is the ‘cost explosion’ the core issue? What is the relative importance of moral hazard and adverse selection in competitive health insurance? What is the relevance of supplier-induced demand?
Nov 29, 2023 · Health economics is an applied field of study that examines and finds systems-based solutions to make health care more equitable, accessible, and affordable for all.
Mar 23, 2021 · Health care economics is a term used to describe the various factors that converge to influence the health care industry’s costs and spending.
Apr 1, 2023 · Health Economics is concerned with the problem of allocating healthcare resources in case of scarcity and uncertainty. This includes both resource allocation to the healthcare system and to different activities and individuals within the healthcare system.
