On the design of equity-oriented pharmaceutical copayments

Abstract In this paper, we propose a new approach to address the problem of designing pharmaceutical copayments. The rationale for positive copayments in our setting lies in the presence of budgetary constraints and, hence, in the need to raise funds in order to finance the costs of the treatments....

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Main Author: Paula González
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-10-01
Series:SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13209-019-00207-y