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Health Insurance and Ex Ante Moral Hazard: Evidence from Medicare [PDF]

Basic economic theory suggests that health insurance coverage may cause a reduction in prevention activities, but empirical studies have yet to provide much evidence to support this prediction.
Dhaval Dave, Robert Kaestner
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Natural Biomaterials for Osteochondral Repair: From Source to Strategy

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Biological origin‐guided overview of natural biomaterials and therapeutic strategies for osteochondral tissue engineering. The circular diagram categorizes representative materials and strategies into plant/algae‐derived, microbial‐derived, animal‐derived, and human‐derived sources, centered on an osteochondral defect repair model.
Hengyu Liu, Hanyang Zhang, Wenbo Yang, Hao Chen, Jincheng Wang, Fei Chang   +5 more
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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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A Biomimetic Lubricant Captures Hyaluronic Acid In Situ to Regenerate Cartilage: From Bench to Bedside

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
(a) The outstanding lubricative properties of natural articular cartilage arise from a composite coating composed of HA, lubricin, and phospholipids at its surface. Notably, lubricin facilitates the enrichment of synovial HA onto cartilage surfaces, and HA complexes with phospholipids, a key component to maintain extremely low friction under high ...
Yongan Lin, Zijian Yan, Jiayi Chen, Xiaochao Wang, Ruibin Lin, Yunqi Fu, Zhaoying Lv, Bohui Wu, Xuewei Cao, Renjian Xie, Ming Dong, Chenxiao Zheng, Li Ren   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Macroeconomic consequences of alternative reforms to the health insurance system in the United States

International Studies of Economics
This 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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Understanding client satisfaction with a health insurance scheme in Nigeria: factors and enrollees experiences

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, Mohammed Shafiu, Dong Hengjin   +2 more
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Do Small Group Health Insurance Regulations Influence Small Business Size? [PDF]

The cost of health insurance has been the primary concern of small business owners for several decades. State small group health insurance reforms, implemented in the 1990s, aimed to control the variability of health insurance premiums and to improve ...
Pinar Karaca-Mandic, Brent Fulton, Kanika Kapur, Susan M Gates   +3 more
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Intestinal Source Control of Lipid Metabolism by Enzyme‐Probiotic Encapsulated, Spatiotemporal Crosslinked, and Small Intestine‐Adhesive Hydrogel Microspheres

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A thiol‐modified alginate hydrogel microsphere‐encapsulated enzyme‐probiotic biohybrid (AKK‐COD) system has been developed to address the spatiotemporal delivery and colonization challenges of small intestine‐targeted probiotic for lipid metabolism regulation. The system exerts sequential functions of intragastric protection, small intestinal adhesion,
Xiaolin Wu, Weiwen Liang, Siqi He, Guangyuan Chen, Hui Zhou, Xinglong Wang, Yifei Li, Dingcai Wu, Bingna Zheng, Ruoxu Dou, Rongkang Huang   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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Measuring Nutrition Security Using the Consumer Food Data System Datasets

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nutrition security is an emerging concept lacking a consensus definition, conceptualization, or standardized measure. This perspectives manuscript synthesizes findings from two previously published analyses to assess the feasibility of using available measures of key dimensions of nutrition security from two Consumer Food Data System (CFDS ...
Vibha Bhargava, Jung Sun Lee, Travis A. Smith   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source