Insurance barriers and inequalities in health care access: evidence from dual practice

Health Economics Review

Table 1 Descriptive Statistics of patients using oral antidiabetics, total and stratified by insurance scheme

Variable	Definition	Total		Public		Private
		mean	sd	mean	sd	mean	sd
Single-pill	1 if single-pill	0.58	0.49	0.57	0.49	0.70	0.46
Insurance
Public	1 if Public	0.94	0.24	1.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Private	1 if Private	0.06	0.24	0.00	0.00	1.00	0.00
Patient characteristics
Pat Age	Age patient	66.20	11.74	66.25	11.81	65.34	10.59
Risk Score	Risk score patient	4.87	2.38	4.89	2.39	4.50	2.27
Patient Sex
Female Pat	1 if female	0.44	0.50	0.46	0.50	0.23	0.42
Male Pat	1 if male	0.56	0.50	0.54	0.50	0.77	0.42
Physician characteristics
Doc Age	Age physician	57.99	7.05	58.01	7.04	57.66	7.17
Physician Sex
Female Doc	1 if female	0.24	0.42	0.24	0.43	0.15	0.35
Male Doc	1 if male	0.76	0.42	0.76	0.43	0.85	0.35
Specialist	1 if specialist	0.34	0.47	0.33	0.47	0.42	0.49
PHI Share
< 5%	less than 5%	0.55	0.50
5–10%	between 5 and 10%	0.28	0.45
10–15%	between 10 and 15%	0.11	0.32
> 15%	more than 15%	0.06	0.23
Relative share	relative PHI share	-0.22	4.37
N (patients) N (physicians)		68,362 681		64,195 681		4,167 628

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