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The Effect of State Health Insurance Benefit Mandates on Premiums and Employee Contributions
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015The average US state has 40 benefit mandates, laws requiring health insurance to cover particular conditions, treatments, providers, or people. We investigate the extent to which these mandates increase the health insurance premiums paid by employers, and the extent to which these higher premiums are passed on to employees in the form of higher ...
James Bailey, Nathan Blascak
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Health Care of the Poor: The Contribution of Social Insurance
2019This chapter examines the link between health care of the poor and social insurance through an assessment of the Medicare and Medicaid models. The impact of Medicaid, as the primary insurer for the nonelderly poor, and of Medicare, as the insurer of the elderly, on the health of the poor and access to care provides valuable lessons for national health ...
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Actuarial Contributions to the Study of Health Insurance
This dissertation examines how patient characteristics and actuarial methods can be combined to design fairer, more sustainable health insurance in Hungary. I start by mapping the landscape of key private health insurance products and the pricing techniques that underpin them.openaire +1 more source
Remittances, health insurance, and pension contributions: Evidence from Colombia
World Development, 2020Abstract Pension contributions and health insurance guarantee that people withdraw from the labor market without falling into poverty and protect individuals and their families against adverse health shocks. However, many workers with informal jobs in developing countries lack access to these two components of the social security system.
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Mutual health insurance and its contribution to improving child health in Rwanda [PDF]
, 2012 Rwanda is among the few countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and the developing approaching universal health insurance coverage. To date, over 90 per cent of the population are enrolled in the Mutuelles de Santé - a system that started off from a number of stand-alone community based health insurance schemes and gradually evolved into a unified social ...
Binagwaho, Agnes +3 more
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Defined contribution defined: health insurance for the next century.
Managed care quarterly, 2001The consumerism movement will dramatically affect the current payer model and present a new series of challenges for managed care organizations. Employers will fuel the changes, as they create health benefit programs that are modeled after retirement programs. In these cases, employers will shift a major portion of financial responsibility to employees,
D C, Marhula, E G, Shannon
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[Pharmacoepidemiology of diabetes: contribution of a survey of health insurance cases].
Diabetes & metabolism, 1999To determine the pattern of treatment of diabetes and its complications, data from a specific study performed by the French healthcare system were used. Between the 10th and 15th of May 1993, all the prescriptions for which a reimbursement was asked were registered with the age and sex of the subject for whom the prescription was written. Patients with
F, Vauzellé-Kervroedan +4 more
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Analysis of the Payment Rate of National Health Insurance Contributions
2018Households and companies bear the burden of insurance contributions in return for government providing services. The burden is imposed collected in the form of insurance contributions based on the conditions of the households and companies. However, not all households and companies are able to pay taxes and social insurance premiums.
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Health insurance trends are contributing to growing health care inequality.
Health affairs (Project Hope), 2007A health plan chief medical officer comments on several trends underscoring the conclusion reached by Robert Hurley and colleagues that disparities in health care are widening. Growing use of new technology is driving up premiums, increasing the ranks of the uninsured and underinsured.
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The contribution of voluntary health insurance
Journal of Chronic Diseases, 1956openaire +2 more sources