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Defined-Contribution Health Insurance Products: Development And Prospects

Health Affairs, 2002
Defined-contribution health insurance products have received considerable recent attention, stimulated by double-digit increases in health plan premiums and employers' desire to get their employees more involved in health care purchasing decisions.
Jon B, Christianson, Stephen T, Parente, Ruth, Taylor   +2 more
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Political Contributions from the Health and Insurance Industries

Health Affairs, 1992
During a major election year, interest surges in discovering the sources of campaign funds for influential members of Congress and presidential candidates. This study traces the contributors from the health and insurance industries during the 1990 campaign and presents preliminary figures for the 1992 campaign.
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National Health Insurance: A Commentary on Nathan Sinai??s Contributions

Medical Care, 1974
Dr. Sinai has elected to discuss two key social policy issues in national health insurance: first, the role of private insurance, and second, the nature of the administrative agency. Other important social policy issues include population coverage that is, whether we should rely on voluntarism with subsidy or insist on universality; methods of ...
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Deductibility of Health Insurance and Social Security Contributions

EC Tax Review, 2011
The article analyses two recent European Court of Justice (ECJ) decisions (C-544/07, Rüffler, and C-314/08, Filipiak) addressing the question of whether a Member State can limit the deductibility of social security or health insurance contributions under income tax law to those paid to a domestic institution.
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Adopting wearables to customize health insurance contributions

2022
Background Wearables, as small portable computer systems worn on the body, can track user fitness and health data, which can be used to customize health insurance contributions individually. In particular, insured individuals with a healthy lifestyle can receive a reduction of their contributions to be paid.
Neumann, Daniel, Tiberius, Victor (Prof. Dr. Dr.), Biendarra, Florin   +2 more
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The Effect of State Health Insurance Benefit Mandates on Premiums and Employee Contributions

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
The 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

2019
This 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.
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Remittances, health insurance, and pension contributions: Evidence from Colombia

World Development, 2020
Abstract 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, Hartwig, Renate, Ingeri, Denyse, Makaka, Andrew   +3 more
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