FUZZY MULTIATTRIBUTE CONSUMER CHOICE AMONG HEALTH INSURANCE OPTIONS

Consumer choice among health insurance options.

A Supplementary Appendix: Health Insurance and Consumer Choice

Typically, however, consumers do not bear the cost of their hospitalization directly, as either all or most of the cost is borne by an insurer. Similarly, consumers’ choices of both which hospital to patronize and what care to consume are determined substantially by their insurer through selective contracting and utilization review.1 This is especially true of HMO patients who often pay little ...

Quality Competition, Insurance, and Consumer Choice in Health Care Markets

In this model, insurance offering a choice of hospitals is valued because consumers are uncertain which hospital they will prefer ex post. A competitive insurance market facilitates tacit price collusion between hospitals; high margins induce hospitals to compete for customers through overinvestment in quality. Incentives may exist to lock in market share via managed-care plans with less choice...

Consumer choice of social health insurance in managed competition.

OBJECTIVE To promote managed competition in Dutch health insurance, the insured are now able to change health insurers. They can choose a health insurer with a low flat-rate premium, the best supplementary insurance and/or the best service. As we do not know why people prefer one health insurer to another, we investigated their reasons for selecting their health insurer and assessed the importa...

factor affecting choice of pistachio supplemental insurance options in rafsanjan

crop insurance is one of the best strategies to tackle farm risks and encourage producers to adopt modern production technologies. in present study, a sample of 224 insured and uninsured pistachio growers was selected for interview and collected required data using a simple random sampling method. then a logit multinomial model was used to assess factors affecting the choice of supplemental ins...