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Volonté de payer pour des services parallèles d’assurance santé : résultats d’une expérience de laboratoire.
Author(s) -
Buckley Neil J.,
Cuff Katherine,
Hurley Jeremiah,
McLeod Logan,
Nuscheler Robert,
Cameron David
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
canadian journal of economics/revue canadienne d'économique
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1540-5982
pISSN - 0008-4085
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2011.01690.x
Subject(s) - willingness to pay , preference , health insurance , health care , public health insurance , actuarial science , private insurance , private sector , public economics , affect (linguistics) , business , public health , economics , psychology , medicine , microeconomics , nursing , economic growth , communication
Debate over the effects of public versus private health care finance persists in both academic and policy circles. This paper presents the results of a revealed preference laboratory experiment that tests how characteristics of the public health system affect a subject's willingness‐to‐pay (WTP) for parallel private health insurance. Consistent with the theoretical predictions of Cuff et al. (2010), subjects’ average WTP is lower and the size of the private insurance sector smaller when the public system allocates health care based on need rather than randomly and when the probability of receiving health care from the public system is high.