医疗服务市场的高价格形成机制--一个基于信息扩散的解释框架  

The Outrageous Price Forming Mechanism on Healthcare Market——A Price Information Transmission Approach

作　　者：孙洛平[1] 

机构地区：[1]中山大学岭南学院经济学系,广州510275

出　　处：《南方经济》2008年第4期12-26,共15页South China Journal of Economics

摘　　要：本文指出,一个自由的医疗服务市场会导致过高的价格水平,其原因在于,医疗服务的价格变化信息在患者之间扩散是一个缓慢的时间过程,致使医院的医疗服务需求对价格变化不敏感,从而降低了医疗服务市场的竞争性。本文同时指出,政府只要能够改变医疗服务价格信息的扩散机制,就能够建立一个以市场机制为基础的高效率的医疗卫生体制。This paper demonstrates that a free healthcare market naturally forms high price level.Since information of price changes transmit slowly among patients, the demand for health services is insensitive to prices, and thus the competitiveness of healthcare market is low. The paper suggests that once the government improves the way price signals travel among consumers, we can expect high efficiency in healthcare market.

关 键 词：医疗服务市场 医疗体制改革 市场竞争性 需求价格弹性 

分 类 号：F019.6[经济管理—政治经济学] R-012[医药卫生]