Moral hazard is the tendency for an insured person to overuse health services because he has insurance.
What is Moral hazard?
- If an economic actor has an incentive to increase its exposure to risk because it does not bear the full costs of that risk is known as a moral hazard
- For example, when an organization is insured, it's going to take on higher risk knowing that its insurance will pay the associated costs
- When the actions of the risk-taking party change to the detriment of the cost-bearing party after a financial transaction has taken place, a moral hazard may occur.
- Moral hazard can be considered as a type of information asymmetry, where the risk-taking party to a transaction knows more about its intentions than the party paying the consequences of the risk and has a tendency or incentive to take on too much risk from the perspective of the party with less information.
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