Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/187280 
Year of Publication: 
1995
Series/Report no.: 
PIDS Discussion Paper Series No. 1995-06
Publisher: 
Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), Makati City
Abstract: 
Despite potential benefits from Medicare, many Filipinos are indifferent, if not hostile to the program due to the perceived widespread corruption and red tape in the processing of claims. Hence, economic evaluation of Medicare is necessary for the identification of the strengths and weaknesses of the program's design. This is also indispensable for the determination of its unintended impacts to the population. However, due to data limitation, this study narrows the objective by concentrating on the identification of the cross-subsidies occurring within the Medicare population through regression and the distribution of the burden of the Medicare contribution through incidence analysis.
Subjects: 
health sector
computable general equilibrium (CGE)
health care
health insurance
medical care
subsidy
hospitalization
medicare contributions
payroll tax
cross-subsidy
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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