Age Structural Transitions and Copayment Policy Effectiveness: Evidence from Taiwan's National Health Insurance System.

ABSTRACT: Population ageing is a worldwide phenomenon that could influence health policy effectiveness. This research explores the impact of age structural transitions on copayment policy responses under Taiwan's National Health Insurance (NHI) system. The time-varying parameter vector autoregressive model was applied to create two measures of the copayment policy effectiveness, and multiple linear regression models were used to verify the nonlinear effect of age structural transitions on copayment policy responses. Our results show that copayment policy effectiveness (in terms of the negative response of medical center outpatient visits to upward adjustments in copayment) is positively correlated with the proportions of the population in two older age groups (aged 55-64 and ≥ 65) and children (age

SUBMITTER: Lin YL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7344636 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature