Growth and welfare in mixed health system financing with physician dual practice in a developing economy: a case of Indonesia.
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SUBMITTER: Alpaslan B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7892739 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar
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Growth and welfare in mixed health system financing with physician dual practice in a developing economy: a case of Indonesia.
Alpaslan Barış B Lim King Yoong KY Song Yan Y
International journal of health economics and management 20201107 1
Based on Indonesia's hybrid BPJS Kesehatan health system, we analyze for welfare-optimal government financing strategy in an economy with a mixed health system using an endogenous growth framework with physician dual practice. We find the model solution to produce two vastly different regimes in terms of policy implications: a "high" public-sector congestion regime as in the benchmark case of Indonesia, and a "low" public-sector congestion, high capacity regime. In the former, welfare-optimal he ...[more]
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