Access to Physician Services: Does Supplemental Insurance Matter? Evidence from France

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Titel: Access to Physician Services : Does Supplemental Insurance Matter? Evidence from France

Beteiligte: Buchmueller, Thomas C. [Verfasser:in]; Couffinhal, Agnès [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]; Grignon, Michel [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]; Perronin, Marc [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]

Körperschaft: National Bureau of Economic Research

Erschienen: Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2002

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.3386/w9238

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Beschreibung: In France, public health insurance is universal but incomplete, with private payments accounting for roughly 25 percent of all spending. As a result, most people have supplemental private health insurance. We investigate the effects of such insurance on the utilization of physician services using data from the 1998 Enquˆte Sant‚ Protection Sociale, a nationally representative survey of the French population. Our results indicate that insurance has a strong and significant effect on the utilization of physician services. Individuals with supplemental coverage have substantially more physician visits than those without. In a context where patients are free to choose their provider, we find no evidence that adults with supplemental insurance are more likely to visit a specialist than a general practitioner

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