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L’économie politique des dépenses en santé publique et des temps d’attente dans un régime de soins de santé mixte public‐privé .
Author(s) -
Mou Haizhen
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.1540-5982.2012.01741.x
Subject(s) - health care , public health , public economics , demographics , public expenditure , aggregate expenditure , economics , politics , mixed economy , demographic economics , economic growth , public finance , political science , medicine , market economy , sociology , nursing , macroeconomics , demography , law
This paper investigates the determinants of public health expenditure in a public‐private mixed health care system, where a longer wait time for public care is the major difference between public and private sectors. Voter preferences for health care vary according to their age and by income, and public policy choices are part of a multi‐dimensional, competitive political equilibrium. We show how equilibrium public health expenditure and wait times depend on demographics and explain why they are independent of the distributions of income and political influence. We also show that population aging may not always lead to more public health expenditure.