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Health insurance for the healthy? Voluntary health insurance in Sweden

Health Policy, 2019
In Sweden, voluntary health insurance is held only by a very small part of the population, but uptake has grown rapidly since 2000. So far, little is known about who purchases this insurance and what the insurance plans contain.To provide a comprehensive description of the coverage and content of voluntary health insurance in Sweden.Data from a ...
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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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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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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.
T J, Carr, S S, Sharfstein
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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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