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Pricing regulatiâon of individual health plans

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  • Carlos Octávio Ocké-Reis
  • Simone de Souza Cardoso

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Pricing regulation of Brazilian private health insurance. Aggregate price indices measure variations in nominal prices. In this paper, we compare the inflation rates of the general economy and those of the health sector and private health insurance market between 2001 and 2005, based on the indices of Departamento Intersindical de Estatística e Estudos Socioeconômicos, of Fundação Instituto de Pesquisas Econômicas, of Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística and IPEADATA database, to the private heath insurance readjustment applied by the National Private Health Insurance Agency (ANS). The health sector inflation rate was found stable and inferior to the general one, what would validate applying lower readjustments derived from official price indices. JEL Classification: D40, I11, I18.

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  • Carlos Octávio Ocké-Reis & Simone de Souza Cardoso, 2011. "Pricing regulatiâon of individual health plans," Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, Center of Political Economy, vol. 31(3), pages 455-470.
    • Handle: RePEc:ekm:repojs:v:31:y:2011:i:3:p:455-470:id:415
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    Keywords

    Bundle pricing; health care markets; regulation; government policy;
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    JEL classification:

    • D40 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - General
    • I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health

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