Social health insurance in the Philippines: do the poor really benefit?

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作者：
Salaheddine El Omari
Mahmoud Karasneh
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[1] Qatar University,Department of Finance and Economics
来源：
Journal of Economics and Finance | 2021年 / 45卷
关键词：
Social health insurance; Healthcare access; Health care utilization; Impact evaluation; Indigents; Philippines; I13; I15; O11; O53;
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摘要：
Developing countries have spent a tremendous amount of time and money on social health insurance programs to give the low-income population free access to health care services. Standard economic theory predicts that people use care services more frequently and regularly when they are free. In this paper, we show that providing free access to health services might not be enough to enhance the utilization of health care by indigents.
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