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Access to Physician Services: Does Supplemental Insurance Matter? Evidence from France / Thomas C. Buchmueller, Agnès Couffinhal, Michel Grignon, Marc Perronin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buchmueller, Thomas C.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w9238.
- NBER working paper series no. w9238
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Access to Physician Services
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2002.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- September 2002.
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