Effects of the Reform of the Social Medical Insurance System in Japan
Effects of the Reform of the Social Medical Insurance System in Japan
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日本社会医疗保险制度改革的效果
DOI：
10.1111/1468-5876.00238
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发表时间：
2002
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通讯作者：
S. Takagi
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作者：
A. Yoshida;S. Takagi
我们估计了门诊医疗服务需求函数，并检验了1997年医疗保险制度改革的效果。我们关注的问题是，哪些人受到改革的影响最大，以及价格弹性自改革以来发生了多大程度的变化。估计结果表明，改革主要影响受抚养人的医疗保健需求，这意味着所有家庭成员分担了户主医疗费用的增加。价格弹性在改革前为-0.18至-0.26，在改革后为-0.08至-0.11。
We estimate outpatient medical care demand functions and examine the effects of the 1997 reform of the medical insurance system. We focus on the issue of which persons have been most affected by the reform and on the extent to which price elasticities have changed since the reform. The estimation results show that the reform affected mainly dependants' demand for medical care, which implies that all members of the household shared the increase in the medical costs of the head of the household. Price elasticities ranged from -0.18 to -0.26 before the reform, and from -0.08 to -0.11 after the reform.