Moral Hazard and its Implications on Health Insurance Sector: Overview of Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic

• Autorzy: Joanna Elżbieta Sikora-Alicka
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Kenneth J. Arrow's disruptive work, Medical Uncertainty and Welfare Economics, published in 1963, was one of the first studies investigating the effects of moral hazard on the healthcare sector. Since then, countless works exploring that subject have been published. The history of research on moral hazard in medical insurance shows that this concept is defined differently in other areas of the economy than healthcare. The proposed work is an attempt to understand and conceptualise the moral hazard in health insurance. As uncommon circumstances marked 2020, we now consider health insurance through the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. This work discusses the results of an investigation of the impact of moral hazard and its implications on the health insurance sector during COVID-19. The author designed and conducted a study that presented several metrics involving the distribution of medical expenditures, the effect of price on medical care consumption, PLS (profit and loss sharing) concept and their mediating and moderating effect on moral hazard in the insurance sector. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

COVID-19; Hazard; Health care insurance

PL

COVID-19; Hazard; Ubezpieczenia zdrowotne

• Czasopismo: Optimum : studia ekonomiczne
• Rocznik: 2022
• Numer: nr 1 (107)
• Strony: 113--126

Twórcy

autor

Joanna Elżbieta Sikora-Alicka

• Uniwersytet Gdański

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DOI

10.15290/oes.2022.01.107.08