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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Preferences for health insurance and health status: does it matter whether you are Dutch or German?
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Janet MacNeil Vroomen
  • Peter Zweifel
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title The European Journal of Health Economics
Publisher Springer
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 1618-7598
Volume 12
Number 1
Page Range 87 - 95
Date 2011
Abstract Text This contribution seeks to measure preferences for health insurance of individuals with and without chronic conditions in two countries, Germany and the Netherlands. The objective is to test the presumption that preferences between these two subpopulations differ and to see whether having a chronic condition has a different influence on preferences depending on the country. The evidence comes from two Discrete Choice Experiments performed in 2005 (Germany) and 2006 (the Netherlands, right after a major health reform). Results point to an even more marked resistance against restrictions of physician choice among individuals with chronic conditions in both countries. Thus, the alleged beneficiaries of Disease Management Programs would have to be highly compensated for accepting the restrictions that go with them.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1007/s10198-010-0248-0
PubMed ID 20446014
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