Abstract:IntroductionUnder traditional health insurance arrangements, citizens were covered by some insurance scheme. When sick, insurance arrangements allowed citizens to go to a health care provider, pay the price of the care received and be reimbursed later. Alternatively, the care provider would be owned by the insurer (like in integrated national health systems) and the patient paid nothing at the moment of consumption. In such arrangements, providers would freely set their prices or have no price to set at all (i… Show more
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