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Health Care Financing over the Life Cycle, Universal Medical Vouchers and Welfare [PDF]
In this paper we develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations (OLG) model with health shocks to analyze the life-cycle pattern of insurance choice and health care spending.
Chung Tran, Juergen Jung
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Disparities in Hospital Services Utilization Among Patients with Mental Health Issues: A Statewide Example Examining Insurance Status and Race Factors from 1999-2010 [PDF]
, 2015 There exist many disconnects between the mental and general health care sectors. However, a goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 is to change this by improving insurance access and the intersection of mental and general health care. As insurance
Beydoun, Hind A +3 more
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Health Research Policy and Systems, 2011 Background Health insurance schemes have been widely introduced during this last decade in many African countries, which have strived for improvements in health service provision and the promotion of health care utilization.
Sambo Mohammad N +2 more
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Private Health Insurance Provisions of H.R. 3962 [PDF]
, 2009 [Excerpt] This report summarizes key provisions affecting private health insurance, including provisions to raise revenues, in Division A of H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, as introduced in the House of Representatives on October ...
Chaikind, Hinda +5 more
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Adverse Selection and Private Health Insurance Coverage in India - A Rational Behaviour Model of Insurance Agents under Asymmetric Information [PDF]
In the backdrop of the low level of health insurance coverage in India, this study examines the determinants of the scaling-up process of health insurance by analyzing the rational behaviour of an insurance agent facing a trade-off between selling health
Sukumar Vellakkal
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International Studies of EconomicsThis paper presents a dynamic general equilibrium model designed to examine the macroeconomic effects and welfare implications of alternative reforms to the US health insurance system.
Zhigang Feng
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U.S. tax policy and health insurance demand: can a regressive policy improve welfare? [PDF]
The U.S. tax policy on health insurance is regressive because it favors only those offered group insurance through their employers, who tend to have a relatively high income.
Karsten Jeske, Sagiri Kitao
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Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome, 2017 Background The primary aim of the disease management program (DMP) for patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 is to improve the quality of health care and the treatment process.
Michael Mehring +4 more
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Financing health care in high-income countries [PDF]
The main lesson from the experience of high-income countries with health care financing is a simple one: financing reforms should support the ultimate goal of universal coverage. Most high-income countries started with voluntary health insurance systems,
G. Schieber +2 more
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Private Health Insurance Premiums and Rate Reviews [PDF]
, 2011 [Excerpt] In general, the premiums charged by health insurance companies represent actuarial estimates of the amount that would be required to cover three main components: (1) the expected cost of the health benefits covered under the plan, (2) the ...
Fernandez, Bernadette, Newsom, Mark
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