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Effects of Recent Carrot-and-Stick Policy Initiatives on Private Health Insurance Coverage in Australia

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ALFONS PALANGKARAYA
JONGSAY YONG

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The Australian government implemented a sequence of new policies during 1997-2000 and raised the take-up rate of private health insurance (PHI) by 35 per cent. Because they were implemented sequentially, their individual effectiveness is not quite clear. We isolate the effects of Lifetime Health Cover (LHC) introduced at the last stage of the sequence using a counterfactual analysis of PHI demand with and without the new policies. Unlike earlier studies which attributed the bulk of the increase in PHI coverage to LHC, we find LHC may only account for as low as 42 per cent and no more than 75 per cent of the increase. Copyright 2005 The Economic Society Of Australia.

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Volume (Year): 81 (2005)
Issue (Month): 254 (09)
Pages: 262-272
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  1. Hopkins, Sandra & Kidd, Michael P, 1996. "The Determinants of the Demand for Private Health Insurance under Medicare," Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 28(12), pages 1623-32, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  4. Cameron, A. Colin & Trivedi, Pravin K., 1991. "The role of income and health risk in the choice of health insurance : Evidence from Australia," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 45(1), pages 1-28, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  5. Alfons Palangkaraya & Jongsay Yong, 2004. "How Effective is Lifetime Health Cover in Raising Private Health Insurance Coverage in Australia? An Assessment Using Regression Discontinuity," Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series wp2004n33, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne. [Downloadable!]
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  1. Jongsay Yong & Alfons Palangkaraya & Elizabeth Webster & Peter Dawkins, 2006. "The Income Distributive Implications of Recent Private Health Insurance Policies in Australia," Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series wp2006n02, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne. [Downloadable!]
  2. Alfons Palangkaraya & Jongsay Yong & Elizabeth Webster & Peter Dawkins, 2009. "The income distributive implications of recent private health insurance policy reforms in Australia," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer, vol. 10(2), pages 135-148, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Randall Ellis & Elizabeth Savage, 2008. "Run for cover now or later? The impact of premiums, threats and deadlines on private health insurance in Australia," International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, Springer, vol. 8(4), pages 257-277, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  4. Stephanie Knox & Elizabeth Savage & Denzil Fiebig & Vineta Salale, 2007. "Joiners, leavers, stayers and abstainers: Private health insurance choices in Australia, CHERE Working Paper 2007/8," Working Papers 2007/8, CHERE, University of Technology, Sydney. [Downloadable!]
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