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When co-payments for physician visits ca

When co-payments for physician visits can affect supply as well as demand: findings from a natural experiment in Israel's national health insurance system

✍ Bruce Rosen; Shuli Brammli-Greenberg; Revital Gross; Roger Feldman 📂 Article 📅 2010 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 118 KB

In 1998, Israel's national health insurance system introduced a modest co-payment for visits to specialist physicians. This study takes advantage of a natural experiment in which 15% of the population--the poor and disabled--was exempted from these co-payments. It used the micro-level panel data of