Public policy and private health insurance: distributional impact on public and private hospital usage in New South Wales

The paper reports on findings from a three year Australian Research Council grant with the NSW Health Department, the Health Insurance Commission and the Productivity Commission as industry partners. We wish to thank Durham Bennett and Andrew Gibbs from the NSW Health Department for their valuable assistance in compiling and interpreting the NSW Health hospitals datasets and the NSW Health Ethics Committee for granting clearance for use of these datasets. Thanks are also due to Professor Ann Harding (Director, NATSEM) for the overall guidance she provided to this project