Social Inequalities and Pharmaceutical Cost Sharing in Italian Regions

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 761-785 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Terraneo ◽  
Simone Sarti ◽  
Mara Tognetti Bordogna
Keyword(s):  
Cost Sharing ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Pharmaceutical Cost ◽  
Italian Regions

scholarly journals Australia's pharmaceutical cost sharing policy: reducing waste or affordability?

2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evan Doran ◽  
Jane Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Moral Hazard ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Cost Sharing ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Pharmaceutical Cost

In this paper we argue that Australia?s pharmaceutical cost sharing policy has been applied as if cost sharing is unproblematic for medicine affordability and good health outcomes. Australian and international experience with pharmaceutical cost sharing strongly suggests a negative impact on affordability and quality use of medicines, disproportionately affecting low income patients. We argue that Australia?s use of cost sharing reflects the currency of a cognitively powerful and morally charged idea ? moral hazard. Moral hazard refers to the change in behaviour induced by insurance coverage. Applied to pharmaceuticals, this means that low out-of-pocket cost will lead to waste. Moral hazard mixes the explanatory power of price with the intuitively cogent notion that if people do not experience consequences they will behave irresponsibly. Cost sharing policy has gone unscrutinised and uncontested not because cost sharing is unproblematic, but because in the light of the idea of moral hazard it has all the question-deadening weight of common sense.

scholarly journals Determinants of Change in Medicaid Pharmaceutical Cost Sharing: Does Evidence Affect Policy?

1997 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen B. Soumerai ◽  
Dennis Ross‐Degnan ◽  
Eric E. Fortess ◽  
Bryan L. Walser
Keyword(s):  
Cost Sharing ◽  
Pharmaceutical Cost

The effect of cost sharing on the quality of dental care

1984 ◽  
Vol 48 (11) ◽  
pp. 597-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
HL Bailit ◽  
RH Brook ◽  
CJ Kamberg ◽  
GA Goldberg ◽  
V Spolsky ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dental Care ◽  
Cost Sharing

Cost sharing and the demand for ambulatory mental health services.

1984 ◽  
Vol 39 (10) ◽  
pp. 1195-1197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall P. Ellis ◽  
Thomas G. McGuire
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Cost Sharing

Cost Sharing And The Demand For Ambulatory Mental Health Services

1982 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth B. Wells ◽  
Willard G. Manning ◽  
Naihua Duan ◽  
John E. Ware ◽  
Joseph P. Newhouse
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Cost Sharing
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