More journal any readings are available on the web
through a UC-Davis IP address, not always with tables.
- Health Affairs articles from www.healthaffairs.org
- Journal of Health Economics from
www.elsevier.com
- Health Economics articles through
www.interscience.wiley.com
- New England Journal of Medicine from
www.nejm.org
- American Economic Review, Journal of Economic
Perspectives and other leading economics journals for
articles more than five years old see www.jstor.org
- National Bureau of Economics Working Papers
available from www.nber.org (under working papers select browse
under JEL class and choose I1 Health)
The following are some useful optional references additional
to those in the reader.
A. Overview of U.S. Health Market - now dated
Iglehart, John K. (1999), "The American Health Care System -
Expenditures", New England Journal of Medicine, January 7,
1999, Vol.340, No.1, pp. 70-76.
C. The Economics of Health Insurance.
Cutler, David. M. and Richard J. Zeckhauser (1999), "The Anatomy
of Health Insurance", National Bureau of Economic Research,
Working Paper 7176. [Emphasizes economic theory of health
insurance]
Arrow, Kenneth J. (1963), "Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics
of Medical Care", American Economic Review, Vol.53, pp.
941-973. [The original health economics article]
Feldman, Roger and Bryan Dowd, "A New Estimate of the Welfare Loss
of Excess Health Insurance", American Economic Review,
Vol.81, pp.297-301. [Expands on the RAND study]
F. Managed Care (HMO's and PPO's) and Managed Competition
Miller, Robert H. and Harold S. Luft (2002), "HMO Plan Performance
Update: An Analysis of the Literature, 1997-2001", Health
Affairs, Vol.21 (4), pp.63-85. [Update of Miller and Luft
(1997)]
Buchmueller, TC and Feldstein, PJ. (1996), "Consumers Sensitivity
To Health Plan Premiums - Evidence From A Natural Experiment In
California", Health Affairs, Spring 1996, Vol.15, No.1,
pp.143-151.
Buchmueller, TC and Feldstein, PJ. (1997), "The Effect of Price on
Switching Among Health Plans", Journal of Health Economics,
April 1997, Vol.16, No.2, pp.231-247. [Expands on Buchmueller and
Feldstein (1996)].
D. Users (Demand)
Grossman, Michael (1972), "On the Concept of Health
Capital and the Demand for Health", Journal of Political
Economy, Vol.80, pp.223-255. [The "Grossman"
model]
H. Further Topics
"Health Care and Insurance," Economic Report of the President
2004, Chapter 10. Available at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/
[Reviews many issues in health economics that are current even
now].