The Impact of Compulsory Health Insurance on Medical Care Expenditure by Moroccan households: A Matching Approach

Résumé

Over the past two decades, a large number of empirical studies in the literature have intensively analyzed the various effects of health insurance. These effects include health expenditure and the use of medical care in different countries around the world, using different econometric methods, i.e., econometric valuation methods or other econometric methods. The aim of this article is to assess the impact of compulsory health insurance on medical care spending by Moroccan households during the 2017 period, using data from the household panel survey developed by the National Observatory of Human Development. After presenting a summary of the empirical literature, we proceeded to define the research methodology using the Propensity Score Matching method for impact assessment, and this, to demonstrate and verify is that really Compulsory Health Insurance will significantly reduce household medical care expenditure. Next, we identified the main stylized facts about the dynamics of macroeconomic quantities. Finally, we discussed our empirical results, which show that compulsory health insurance has significantly reduced medical care expenditure by Moroccan households by 18%. This is in line with the literature and reinforces our study.