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Type Working Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Consumer Resistance Against Regulation: The Case of Health Care
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Peter Zweifel
  • Harry Telser
  • Stephan Vaterlaus
Language
  • English
Institution University of Zurich
Series Name Working paper series / Socioeconomic Institute
Number No. 505
Date 2005
Abstract Text Regulation fostering Managed Care alternatives in health insurance is spreading. This work reports on an experiment designed to measure the amounts of compensation asked by the Swiss population (in terms of reduced premiums) for Managed-Care type restrictions in the provision of health care. It finds that restrictions on the freedom of physician choice would require an average compensation of more than one-third of the premium, while generic substitution even meets with a small willingness to pay. Marked preference heterogeneity is an argument against regulation imposing uniformity of contract in Swiss social health insurance.
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