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Health Insurance Coverage [PDF]

open access: possibleThe Future of Children, 1995
Unlike children in most other economically developed countries, children in the United States are not guaranteed health insurance coverage. Indeed, many U.S. children have no health insurance coverage at all. Their lack of coverage restricts their access to health care services: uninsured children have fewer physician visits per year than children with
Linda Schuurmann Baker, Eugene M. Lewit
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Compulsory Health Insurance

JAMA, 1920
To the Editor: —InThe Journal, Jan. 24, 1920, p. 271, Dr. E. M Stanton opposed the principles of compulsory health insurance on the grounds that the burdens of such insurance cannot be borne by the insured. In so doing, in my opinion, he made a very good argument in favor of compulsory health insurance.
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The Impact of Health Insurance on Preventive Care and Health Behaviors: Evidence from the First Two Years of the ACA Medicaid Expansions.

Journal of policy analysis and management, 2017
The U.S. population receives suboptimal levels of preventive care and has a high prevalence of risky health behaviors. One goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to increase preventive care and improve health behaviors by expanding access to health ...
K. Simon, Aparna Soni, J. Cawley
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Something in the Air: Pollution and the Demand for Health Insurance

, 2018
We find that daily air pollution levels have a significant effect on the decision to purchase or cancel health insurance in a manner inconsistent with rational choice theory.
Tom Y. Chang, Wei Huang, Yongxiang Wang
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On National Health Insurance

The American Journal of Nursing, 1978
serve as a basis for the development of the legislation. These plans (see box, next page) differ considerably in their meaning, intent, purpose, and scope of services and benefits they would underwrite.) We met in Texas, Wisconsin, Connecticut, and California and spent two days in Canada studying that country's national health insurance system.
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The Value of Health Insurance

2006
The aim of The Elgar Companion to Health Economics is to take an audience of advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers to the frontier of research in health economics, by providing them with short and easily readable introductions to key topics.
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Insurance and Insurability for Mental Health Services

1980
Since 1950, health care expenditures in the United States have risen astonishingly, from 6.4 percent to about 8 percent of the gross national product. Expenditures for mental health services (including prepayment through insurance) come to roughly 15 percent of the total spent for health care, and have shown comparable increases.
Timothy J. Carr, Steven S. Sharfstein
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The Economics of Health Insurance

Journal of the American College of Radiology, 2012
Insurance plays an important role in the United States, most importantly in but not limited to medical care. The authors introduce basic economic concepts that make medical care and health insurance different from other goods and services traded in the market.
Jha, Saurab, Baker, Tom
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Health Insurance Is Not Health Care

JAMA Internal Medicine, 2014
Thanks to theAffordableCareAct (ACA), low-incomeAmericans (thoseearning less than 139%of the federal poverty level) living in 25 states and theDistrict of Columbia gained eligibility to Medicaid on January 1, 2014.1 The Congressional Budget Office estimates that by 2022 there will be 12 mill ion new enrollees into Medicaid.2 Although this is ...
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Health, Health Insurance, and the Uninsured

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1991
THE PURPOSE of this article is to express a personal viewpoint that might be useful in designing policies to improve the health of the American population. Emphasis will be placed on the uninsured. The viewpoint is based on my experience and research findings from a series of studies that had the following objectives: (1) to improve measures of quality
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