Ferguson B
Department of Economics, University of Guelph, Canada.
Health Econ. 1996 Sep-Oct;5(5):409-19. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1050(199609)5:5<409::AID-HEC229>3.0.CO;2-7.
This paper uses cointegration analysis to investigate the question of whether the introduction of national health insurance for physicians' services (Medicare) in the late 1960s caused a structural change in the relation driving national expenditure on physicians' services in Canada. The results support the existence of a single cointegration equation applying to both the Medicare and pre-Medicare periods. Structural change tests do not support the presence of a fundamental structural change associated with the introduction of Medicare.
本文运用协整分析来研究20世纪60年代末引入针对医生服务的国家医疗保险（医疗保险制度）是否导致了推动加拿大医生服务国家支出的关系发生结构性变化这一问题。结果支持存在一个适用于医疗保险制度时期和医疗保险制度实施前时期的单一协整方程。结构性变化检验并不支持存在与引入医疗保险制度相关的根本性结构变化。
