U.S. tax policy and health insurance demand: can a regressive policy improve welfare? [PDF]
The U.S. tax policy on health insurance is regressive because it favors only those offered group insurance through their employers, who tend to have a relatively high income.
Karsten Jeske, Sagiri Kitao
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The Cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Australia's Print‐Media Discourse
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the way that Australian newspapers have framed the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Introduced in 2013, the NDIS represented a major change in Australia's disability support policy, moving for the first time to a nationwide universal insurance model.
Meera Chinnappa +2 more
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A Study on the Equity Dilemma and Reform Strategies of Drug Reimbursement in China's Medical Insurance System. [PDF]
Healthcare (Basel)Yang M, Zhang Y, Su Q, Sui Y, Sun L.
europepmc +1 more source
Can the health insurance reforms stop an increase in medical expenditures for middle- and old-aged persons in Japan? [PDF]
Using two-period panel data from the Nippon Life Insurance Research Institute, this paper tests the hypothesis that an increase in the self-pay ratio of medical expenditures associated with the Japanese health insurance reforms of April 2003 reduced ...
Masaru Sasaki, Tamie Matsuura
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia require culturally responsive services. The Australian government has committed to establishing strategies to increase the size of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disability workforce; however, there is scant research on the factors influencing retention.
J. Gwynn +9 more
wiley +1 more source
Medical insurance coverage and its associated factors among children in urban and rural Chongqing, China. [PDF]
Int HealthHu C +11 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Disparities in Assistive Technology (AT) access exist for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples despite recent policy reforms. This paper brings together First Nations and Western academic ways of being, knowing and doing to deliver an AT practice analysis based upon primary data from two research reports into the cultural safety of AT
Shane Hearn +6 more
wiley +1 more source
Medical insurance and its impact on tourism: evidence from Vietnam. [PDF]
Front Public HealthWu H, Van Trung H.
europepmc +1 more source
Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood +3 more
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Frequency, diagnosis, and management of polymyalgia rheumatica in Germany-database analysis of medical insurance data. [PDF]
Rheumatology (Oxford)Schmidt WA +6 more
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