Moore W J, Newman R J, Fheili M
Louisiana State University, College of Business Administration, Baton Rouge 70803.
Health Care Financ Rev. 1992 Fall;14(1):133-9.
This article uses recently published time series data for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries to estimate income elasticities for health care expenditures. Several different models and alternative specifications are examined to determine the sensitivity and robustness of the estimated relationships. Income is the dominant-determinant of health care spending and longrun income elasticity for health care is significantly greater than unity. This implies that health care is a luxury good, and expenditures will tend to rise with the level of national income. There is little evidence that the degree of public finance reduces the level of health care expenditures.
本文使用经济合作与发展组织国家最近公布的时间序列数据来估计医疗保健支出的收入弹性。研究了几种不同的模型和替代设定，以确定估计关系的敏感性和稳健性。收入是医疗保健支出的主要决定因素，医疗保健的长期收入弹性显著大于1。这意味着医疗保健是一种奢侈品，支出往往会随着国民收入水平的提高而增加。几乎没有证据表明公共财政程度会降低医疗保健支出水平。
