长期医疗保险对医疗支出的动态影响：来自韩国的证据

IF 0.9 Q3 ECONOMICS

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC JOURNAL Pub Date : 2023-06-28 DOI:10.1080/10168737.2023.2229287

Honsoo Kim, S. Kim, Wonshik Kim, Kyung Hoon Yang

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摘要

长期护理费用给老年人带来了巨大的经济风险。2008年，韩国推出了一项针对65岁以上个人的公共长期护理保险计划。我们研究了LTCI对各种医疗支出的动态影响。我们发现，LTCI实施后，老年人的平均处方药和门诊支出有所增加。从动态上看，我们观察到这些支出的增长放缓。我们还发现，有提示性证据表明，在引入LTCI后，老年人可能会使用LTC医院而不是住院医院服务。这些发现强调了理解LTCI对老年人健康和医疗支出的长期影响的重要性，以及在政策设计中考虑LTC和其他类型医疗服务之间相互作用的必要性。

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Dynamic Effects of Long-Term Care Insurance on Healthcare Expenditures: Evidence from South Korea

Long-term care expenses pose a large financial risk to the elderly. In 2008, South Korea introduced a public long-term care insurance (LTCI) program for individuals older than 65. We study the dynamic effects of the LTCI on various healthcare expenditures. We find that after the implementation of the LTCI, average prescription drug and outpatient expenditures of the elderly increased. Dynamically, we observe that the growth in these expenditures moderates. We also find suggestive evidence that after the introduction of the LTCI, the elderly may utilize LTC hospitals instead of inpatient hospital services. These findings underscore the importance of understanding the long-term effects of LTCI on health and healthcare expenditures of the elderly and the need to account for interactions between LTC and other types of healthcare services in policy design.

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INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC JOURNAL Economics, Econometrics and Finance-Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all)

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期刊介绍： International Economic Journal is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal devoted to publishing high-quality papers and sharing original economics research worldwide. We invite theoretical and empirical papers in the broadly-defined development and international economics areas. Papers in other sub-disciplines of economics (e.g., labor, public, money, macro, industrial organizations, health, environment and history) are also welcome if they contain international or cross-national dimensions in their scope and/or implications.