Will Private Health Insurance Make the Distribution of Public Health Subsidies More Equal? The Case of India

The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory - Tập 28 - Trang 131-160 - 2003
Ajay Mahal1
1Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA

Tóm tắt

This paper assesses the impact of the entry of private players in the health insurance market on the size of the insurance market and the distribution of public health subsidies on health care provision in India. Simulation results presented in the paper suggest that the redistributive effect is small when richer groups have privileged access to public facilities.