The Impact of Public Transfer Income on Catastrophic Health Expenditures for Households With Disabilities in Korea. [PDF]
Chang EJ +4 more
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Can insurance increase financial risk ? The curious case of health insurance in China [PDF]
The most basic argument for insurance is that it reduces financial risk. But since insurance opens up new opportunities for consuming expensive high-technology care which permits health improvements that are valued by the insured, and because in many ...
Lindelow, Magnus, Wagstaff, Adam
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The Reallocation of Compensation in Response to Health Insurance Premium Increases [PDF]
This paper examines how compensation packages change when health insurance premiums rise. We use data on employee choices within a single large firm with a flexible benefits plan; an increasingly common arrangement among medium and large firms.
Arleen Leibowitz +2 more
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Catastrophic Health Expenditures With Pregnancy and Delivery in the United States. [PDF]
Peterson JA +3 more
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Paying for health care : quantifying fairness, catastrophe, and impoverishment, with applications to Vietnam, 1993-98 [PDF]
The authors compare egalitarian concepts of fairness in health care payments (requiring that payments be linked to ability to pay) and minimum standards approaches (requiring that payments not exceed a prespecified share of prepayment income or not drive
Doorslaer, Eddy van, Wagstaff, Adam
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Catastrophic Health Expenditures and Chronic Condition Patients in Greece [PDF]
Skroumpelos, A. +3 more
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Short and longer-term impacts of health insurance on catastrophic health expenditures in Kwara State, Nigeria. [PDF]
Okunogbe A +4 more
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Medicare Gaps and Widow Poverty [PDF]
Several categories of medical expenditures are not covered by Medicare, including prescription drugs, most nursing home stays, and extended hospital visits.
Kathleen McGarry, Robert F. Schoeni
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Inequality in household catastrophic health care expenditure in a low-income society of Iran [PDF]
Background We assessed change in household catastrophic health care expenditures (CHE) and inequality in facing such expenditures in south-west Tehran. Methods A cluster-sampled survey was conducted in 2003 using the World Health Survey questionnaire. We
Arab, Mohammad +7 more
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The impact of public health expenditure and gross domestic product per capita on the risk of catastrophic health expenditures for OECD countries. [PDF]
Söyük S.
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