Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health

The Korean Society for Preventive Medicine (대한예방의학회)
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An Empirical Analysis of Price Elasticity of the Demand for Medical Care Services in Korean National Health Insurance Program

의료보험하에서의 의료수요의 가격탄력성에 관한 실증분석

  • Kim, Chun-Bae (Department of Preventive Medicine & Public Health, College of Medicine, Yonsei University) ;
  • Lee, Do-Sung (Graduate School of Economics, Sogang University) ;
  • Kim, Han-Joong (Department of Preventive Medicine & Public Health, College of Medicine, Yonsei University) ;
  • Sohn, Myong-Sei (Department of Preventive Medicine & Public Health, College of Medicine, Yonsei University)
  • 김춘배 (연세대학교 의과대학 예방의학교실) ;
  • 이도성 (서강대학교 경제대학원) ;
  • 김한중 (연세대학교 의과대학 예방의학교실) ;
  • 손명세 (연세대학교 의과대학 예방의학교실)
  • Published : 1995.06.01
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Abstract

This paper tested by using Micro TSP, an empirical econometric analysis to approve officially a hypothesis of price elasticity of the demand for medical care services in Korean national medical insurance and the economic effect of health care delivery system with time-series datas of Medical Insurance Statistical Yearbook$(1981\sim1993)$. The results suggest that the Korean medical insurance system shows moral hazard due to the change of coinsurance and the economic effect according to intervention of the health care delivery system, but it is different by insurers regardless of the same structure of the medical insurance scheme.

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