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Disability Insurance Income Saves Lives

Journal of Political Economy, 2023
We show that higher payments from US Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) reduce mortality. Using administrative data on new DI beneficiaries, we exploit discontinuities in the benefit formula through a regression kink design.
Alexander M. Gelber   +3 more
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Insured Women and Payment for Elective Abortion

Women's Health Issues, 2008
Of the roughly 1.3 million abortion procedures performed in the United States in 2003, only 25% of patients used their health insurance to pay for the medical expenses, even though 82% of all women between the ages 18 and 64 had some form of insurance that year (Finer & Henshaw, 2003; Kaiser Family Foundation, 2004).
J A, Lee   +3 more
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Insurance aspects of DRG outlier payments

Journal of Health Economics, 1988
As part of the prospective payment system, the government pays 'outlier' payments for especially long or expensive cases. These payments can be viewed as insurance for the hospital against excessive losses. They mitigate problems of access and underprovision of care for the sickest patients, and provide additional payments to the hospitals that take ...
E B, Keeler, G M, Carter, S, Trude
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Does Farm Size Matter? Distribution of Crop Insurance Subsidies and Government Program Payments across U.S. Farms

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2018
This study uses farm-level information from the ARMS database to evaluate the distribution of payments from major 2014 farm bill safety net programs—federal crop insurance, Agricultural Risk Coverage, and Price Loss Coverage—across farm size.
A. Bekkerman   +3 more
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The Insurance Ombudsman and payment protection insurance

Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, 1997
Personal general insurance policies are not subject to statutory regulation. There is instead a system of voluntary self‐regulation and the question arises as to the effectiveness of this regime. This paper explores that issue in relation to payment protection insurance (PPI) and suggests, on the basis of complaints coming before the Insurance ...
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The role of insurance growth in economic growth: Fresh evidence from a panel of OECD countries

, 2020
Insurance is one of the key activities in a globalised financial and economic environment. Through its benefits, it offers income, life and property protection to the insured and their keens, as well as income accumulation that can be used at retirement ...
N. Apergis, Thomas Poufinas
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Insurance principles and the design of prospective payment systems

Journal of Health Economics, 1988
This paper applies insurance principles to the issues of optimal outlier payments and designation of peer groups in Medicare's case-based prospective payment system for hospital care. Arrow's principle that full insurance after a deductible is optimal implies that, to minimize hospital risk, outlier payments should be based on hospital average loss per
R P, Ellis, T G, McGuire
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Machine learning improves accounting estimates: evidence from insurance payments

Review of accounting studies, 2020
Kexing Ding   +4 more
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