Patient mobility and health care quality when regions and patients differ in income
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Patient mobility and health care quality when regions and patients differ in income.
We study the effects of cross-border patient mobility on health care quality and welfare when income varies across and within regions. We use a Salop model with a high-, middle-, and low-income region. In each region, a policy maker chooses health care quality to maximise the utility of its residents when health care costs are financed by general income taxation. In equilibrium, regions with hi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Health Economics
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0167-6296
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2016.05.003