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How adverse selection affects the health insurance market [PDF]

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Adverse selection can be defined as strategic behavior by the more informed partner in a contract against the interest of the less informed partner(s). In the health insurance field, this manifests itself through healthy people choosing managed care and ...
Belli, Paolo
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How cold is too cold? A theoretical analysis of the optimal trigger for index insurance for frost damage to crops

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Crop insurance is undoubtedly an extremely valuable element in protecting agricultural businesses, but in many cases standard indemnity‐based products have had very low uptake due to high transaction costs elevating premiums to unaffordable levels.
Amogh Prakasha Kumar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The provision of public universal health insurance: impacts on private insurance, asset holdings and welfare

open access: yes
This paper aims to investigate impacts of public provision of universal health insurance (UHI) in an environment with household heterogeneity and financial market incompleteness.
Junsang, Lee, Minchung, Hsu
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Income and the Demand for Complementary Health Insurance in France [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines the demand for complementary health insurance (CHI) in the non-group market in France and the reasons why the near poor seem price insensitive. First we develop a theoretical model based on a simple tradeoff between two goods: CHI and
Bidénam Kambia-Chopin, Michel Grignon
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Union effects on health insurance provision and coverage in the United States [PDF]

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Since Freeman and Medoff's (1984) comprehensive review of what unions do, union density in the U.S. has fallen substantially. During the same period, employer provision of health insurance has undergone substantial changes in extent and form.
John DiNardo   +2 more
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Food insecurity and unemployment among immigrants in the United States

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Immigrants can be more vulnerable to economic downturns and, during periods of economic hardship, more likely to experience food insecurity compared to natives. This study examines the differential effect of the unemployment rate on the probability of being food insecure among diverse groups of immigrant households relative to natives in the ...
Siwen Zhou   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating the policy Effect of Medicine Subsidy Plan (Daruyar) on Patients\' Out-Of-Pocket Payments :A Case Study of the General Health Insurance Administration of Isfahan Province [PDF]

open access: yesRāhburdhā-yi Mudīriyyat dar Niẓām-i Salāmat
Background: The policy of removing the preferred drug currency (Daruyar plan) has been with the approach of increasing the coverage ratio and insurance obligations and paying attention to patients' out of pockets, especially incurable, chronic and low ...
Farshid Aslani   +2 more
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Insurance coverage for wigs

open access: yes, 2004
Electronic data.; Title from title screen.; "September 3, 2004."; Originally issued as OLR research report 2003-R-0797: Health insurance-wigs for chemotherapy / by George Coppolo.; Discusses whether other states require insurance companies to provide ...
Leduc, Janet L. Kaminski.
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Using photovoice to understand community perceptions of firearm risks and protective factors among Asian Americans

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study used photovoice methodology to explore Asian Americans' perspectives on the root causes and protective factors of firearm violence in their communities. Photovoice provided a participatory platform for community members to document lived experiences and identify priorities for change.
Tsu‐Yin Wu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bismarck meets Beveridge on the Silk Road: coordinating funding sources to create a universal health financing system in Kyrgyzstan

open access: yesBulletin of the World Health Organization, 2009
Options for health financing reform are often portrayed as a choice between general taxation (known as the Beveridge model) and social health insurance (known as the Bismarck model).
Joseph Kutzin   +3 more
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