It refers to change in economic behavior when individuals are protected or. We then discuss work on three specific. Predictably, those who enrolled in the most generous plan spent the most on health care.
Background consumer moral hazard refers to an increase in demand for health services or a decrease in preventive care due to insurance coverage. The researchers sought to isolate the relative significance of adverse selection and moral hazard in. Healthcare and the moral hazard problem the demand curve isn’t simple when lives are on the line.
Yet, to stay consistent with decades of abuse of terminology in the entire health insurance literature, we use the term in a similar way and by “moral hazard” refer to how. What “moral hazard” means in the context of health insurance, and why it is of interest to economists. We describe research on the impact of health insurance on healthcare spending (“moral hazard”), and use this context to illustrate the value of and important complementarities between.