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A national health insurance program for the United States. [PDF]

PLoS Medicine, 2004
The US will spend $1.79 trillion on health care in 2004, yet 44 million Americans remain uninsured.
Don R McCanne
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Oral health payment systems around the world: structures, challenges, and trends, a scoping review [PDF]

BMC Oral Health
Background The prevalence of dental and oral diseases is increasing globally, yet the utilization of dental services has not shown a corresponding rise.
Susi Susi, Rizanda Machmud, Syed Mohamed Aljunid, Tri Erri Astoeti, Syafrawati   +4 more
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Impact of universal health insurance coverage on hypertension management: a cross-national study in the United States and England.

PLoS ONE, 2014
BackgroundThe Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) galvanised debate in the United States (US) over universal health coverage. Comparison with countries providing universal coverage may illustrate whether the ACA can improve health outcomes ...
Andrew R H Dalton, Eszter P Vamos, Matthew J Harris, Gopalakrishnan Netuveli, Robert M Wachter, Azeem Majeed, Christopher Millett   +6 more
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Barriers beyond behavior: structural determinants of behavioral health treatment disparities among Hispanics in the U.S. [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundPersistent disparities in substance use treatment access undermine efforts to achieve equitable public health outcomes in the United States. Hispanic populations, who report lower prevalence of substance use, nevertheless face systemic barriers
Marissa Gonzalez, Jose Eduardo Cabrero Castro, Emre Umucu, Alfonso Rojas-Alvarez   +3 more
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LESSON LEARNED FROM THE UNITES STATES: IMPROVING HEALTH COVERAGE IN A PRIMARY CARE

Jurnal Administrasi Kesehatan Indonesia, 2022
The universal health coverage in Indonesia is organized by Badan Penyelenggara Jaminan Kesehatan (BPJS) which gives a health protection to population as in medical insurances.
Komang Triyani Kartinawati, Luh Gede Pradnyawati, Doug Campos-Outcalt, Gail P Barker   +3 more
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Health Insurance Coverage before and after the Affordable Care Act in the USA

Sci, 2021
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is at the crossroads. It is important to evaluate the effectiveness of the ACA in order to make rational decisions about the ongoing healthcare reform, but existing research into its effect on health insurance status in the ...
Jesse Patrick, Philip Q. Yang
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Disparities in health insurance coverage among children and young adults in Georgia and the U.S.

Journal of the Georgia Public Health Association, 2016
Background: In this brief report, I compare rates of health insurance coverage for children and young adults in Georgia and the United States. Methods: Utilizing data from the 2014 American Community Survey, I performed two-sample tests of weighted ...
Brandon Attell
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The European influence on workers' compensation reform in the United States

Environmental Health, 2011
Workers' compensation law in the United States is derived from European models of social insurance introduced in Germany and in England. These two concepts of workers' compensation are found today in the federal and state workers' compensation programs ...
LaDou Joseph
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Children’s Health Insurance Status and Emergency Room Utilization: An Examination of Complex Survey Data

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2020
Since the Children’s Health Insurance Program’s passage into law in 1997, the program has increased in cost to over $15 billion in recent years. Emergency room usage has also increased throughout the United States, leading to nationwide issues in ...
Daenuka Muraleetharan PhD, Tamika D. Gilreath PhD, Kristin M. Primm PhD, Shelby C. Lautner MS   +3 more
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The successful innovations of the affordable care act of 2010

Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 2017
The purpose of this article is to describe the innovative strategies that were used to develop the first National health insurance program in the United States.
Ronald D. Hester
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