Impact of Paid Sick Leave Policy: A Social Planner's Perspective
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In many countries, general practitioners (GPs) are assigned the task of controlling the validity of their own patients' insurance claims. At the same time, they operate in a market where patients are customers free to choose their GP. Are these roles compatible? Can we trust that the gatekeeping decisions are untainted by private economic interests? Based on administrative registers from Norway...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2013.301639