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KMID : 0613620100300020446
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Health Social Welfare Review
2010 Volume.30 No. 2 p.446 ~ p.462
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A Comparison of Single and Multiple Private Health Insurance Purchasers Among Middleaged and elderly Korean Adults
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You Chang-Hoon
Kang Sung-Wook
Oh Eun-Hwan
Kwon Young-Dae
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Abstract
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Although many Koreans have purchased private health insurance (PHI), there has few study defining characteristics of those who purchase multiple PHI. This study examined the determinants of purchasing multiple PHI in Korea. The subjects were a national random sample of the aged 45 or older from the Korean Longitudinal Study of Ageing in 2006, and 9,367 samples were used for the analysis. The Heckman’s sample selection model was used to deal with non-random assignment to those who purchase PHI from the whole sample of the study. The model examined the determinants of the purchasing multiple PHI in terms of the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, health status and health behaviors.
Thirty-one hundred and sixty people purchased PHI, and 47.8% of them had multiple PHI. A female, the younger, or the educated was inclined to have multiple PHI. Individuals who have more children were less likely to have multiple PHI. Those who have private transfer or higher total household assets are more likely to purchase multiple PHI. Those who self-assessed their health status as better compared to poor conditions tended to have multiple PHI. Regular exercise was positively related to having multiple PHI.
This study has important implications which examined determinants of purchasing multiple PHI to the extent that many Koreans have purchased PHI even with the enrollment in social health insurance. This study also suggests that purchasing PHI needs to be interpreted in the context of playing a role in accordance with social health insurance.
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KEYWORD
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Private Health Insurance, Multiple Purchase, Heckman Sample Selection Model
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