期刊
JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS
卷 32, 期 6, 页码 1313-1324出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2012.11.006
关键词
Medicare; Health insurance demand; Hypothetical choice experiments
资金
- Behavioral and Social Research program of the National Institute on Aging [P01 AG05842-18, P01AG033559, R56AG026622-01A1, RC4AG039036]
- E. Morris Cox Fund at the University of California, Berkeley
- Munich Center for Health Economics (MC-Health)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through SFB Transregio
In recent years, consumer choice has become an important element of public policy. One reason is that consumers differ in their tastes and needs, which they can express most easily through their own choices. Elements that strengthen consumer choice feature prominently in the design of public insurance markets, for instance in the United States in the recent introduction of prescription drug coverage for older individuals via Medicare Part D. For policy makers who design such a market, an important practical question in the design phase of such a new program is how to deduce enrollment and plan selection preferences prior to its introduction. In this paper, we investigate whether hypothetical choice experiments can serve as a tool in this process. We combine data from hypothetical and real plan choices, elicited around the time of the introduction of Medicare Part D. We first analyze how well the hypothetical choice data predict willingness to pay and market shares at the aggregate level. We then analyze predictions at the individual level, in particular how insurance demand varies with observable characteristics. We also explore whether the extent of adverse selection can be predicted using hypothetical choice data alone. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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