Ramsey waits: allocating public health service resources when there is rationing by waiting.

摘要: The optimal allocation of a public health care budget across treatments must take account the way in which is rationed within since this will affect their marginal value. We investigate rules for systems where user charges are fixed and by waiting. waiting time higher with demands more elastic to time, costs, lower charges, smaller welfare loss from treated patients, losses under-consumption care. results hold wide range welfarist non-welfarist objective functions there also private sector. They imply that based purely on cost effectiveness ratios suboptimal because they assume no rationing treatments.