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Slovenian Complementary Health Insurance as a Service of General Economic Interest

Central European Public Administration Review, 2015
Slovenian legislation defines complementary health insurance as an activity of the public interest, which represents an inseparable and essential element of healthcare system and as such pursues objectives identical to those of compulsory health ...
Bruno Nikolić
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Health screening disparities in people living with HIV; A nationwide organized screening setting

Journal of Infection and Public Health
Background: We identified the uptake of people living with HIV (PLWH) using health-screening services and compared the screening rate with the general population, to identify factors associated with the use of screening services by PLWH.
Boyoung Park, Yoonyoung Jang, Taehwa Kim, Yunsu Choi, Kyoung Hwan Ahn, Jung Ho Kim, Hye Seong, Youn Jeong Kim, Jun Yong Choi, Joon Young Song, Shin-Woo Kim, Sang Il Kim   +11 more
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General practitioners and national health insurance--results of a national survey.

South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde, 1999
To determine the attitudes of South African general practitioners (GPs) to national health insurance (NHI), social health insurance (SHI) and other related health system reforms.A national survey using postal questionnaires and telephonic follow-up of non-responders.GPs throughout South Africa.Four hundred and forty-three GPs were randomly selected ...
BLECHER, M, JACOBS, T, McIntyre, D
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The Macroeconomics of Health Savings Accounts [PDF]

We analyze whether a consumer driven health care plan like the newly established Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) can reduce health care expenditures in the United States and increase the fraction of the population with health insurance.
Chung Tran, Juergen Jung
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The Macroeconomic Consequences of Financing Health Insurance [PDF]

Employer-financed health insurance systems, like that used in the United States, distort firms' labor demand and adversely affect the economy. Since such costs vary with employment rather than hours worked, firms have an incentive to increase output by ...
Jennifer M. Platania, Stephen B. DeLoach
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Co-pay and Feel Okay: Evidence of Illusory Health Gains from a Health Insurance Reform [PDF]

The reliability of general self-rated health status is examined using the reform of the public health insurance system of Germany in 2004 as a source of exogenous variation.
Alfredo R. Paloyo
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Health Reform and the 111th Congress [PDF]

, 2009
[Excerpt] The health reform debate in the 111th Congress has continued and expanded upon the work begun in the 110th Congress. On November 12, 2008, the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Baucus, released a white paper detailing his ...
Chaikind, Hinda
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A survey of eyecare affordability among patients seen in collaborative care in Australia and factors contributing to cost barriers

Public Health Research & Practice
Aim: The decline in the real value of rebates from Australia’s national public health insurance scheme, Medicare, over the past decade has contributed to increased out-of-pocket costs for eyecare services, which threatens affordability.
Rene Cheung, Angelica Ly
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Determinants of Access to Job-related Health Insurance [PDF]

Given that employer-sponsored health insurance plans are the single largest source of private health insurance, understanding the characteristics of those occupations that provide access to job-related health insurance may help researchers and policy ...
Joe Timmerman
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Health insurance and tax policy [PDF]

The U.S. tax policy on health insurance favors only those offered a group insurance through their employers. This policy is highly regressive since the subsidy takes the form of deductions from the progressive tax system.
Karsten Jeske, Sagiri Kitao
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