Effects of Health Insurance Concentration Market on Insurance Coverage in Colombia
Rodríguez Sandra Acosta
Klíčová slova
market concentration, market power on access, health insurance, health system, insurance coverage,
Colombia
Abstrakt:
This study seeks to contribute to the limited knowledge on the health insurance market in Colombia.
Using a database constructed for this purpose, we describe the structure of the health
insurance market in Colombia, specifically its two types of insurance, for 33 market areas during
the period 2007-2011. Taking as a central concern the role of insurance as a guarantee of access
to health services, this study aims to analyze the impact of health insurers’ market power on insurance
coverage. The principal result verifies the existence of concentrated markets, and insurers
have power in those markets in terms of their influence on the level of insurance coverage.
This leads to concentrated market structures and thus the exercise of market power by insurers,
which constitute potential constraints in access to health services.
Celý článek ke stažení:
 Effects of Health Insurance Concentration Market on Insurance Coverage in Colombia [PDF soubor] [Velikost souboru: 1.43 MB]
 10.7441/joc.2014.03.01
Rodríguez S.A. (2014). Effects of Health Insurance Concentration Market on Insurance Coverage in Colombia. Journal of Competitiveness, 6 (3), 3-19 https://doi.org/10.7441/joc.2014.03.01
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