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Is Health Insurance Literacy Associated With Financial Hardship Among Cancer Survivors? Findings From a National Sample in the United States

open access: yesJNCI Cancer Spectrum, 2019
Little is known about the association between health insurance literacy and financial hardship among cancer survivors. Using the 2016 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Experiences with Cancer self-administered questionnaire, we evaluated the associations ...
Jingxuan Zhao   +5 more
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

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

open access: yesPLoS Medicine, 2004
The US will spend $1.79 trillion on health care in 2004, yet 44 million Americans remain uninsured.
Don R McCanne
doaj   +4 more sources

Impact of universal health insurance coverage on hypertension management: a cross-national study in the United States and England.

open access: yesPLoS 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   +6 more
doaj   +6 more sources

The health care system under French national health insurance: lessons for health reform in the United States.

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Public Health, 2003
The French health system combines universal coverage with a public–private mix of hospital and ambulatory care and a higher volume of service provision than in the United States. Although the system is far from perfect, its indicators of health status and consumer satisfaction are high; its expenditures, as a share of gross domestic product, are far ...
V. Rodwin
semanticscholar   +4 more sources

On the Outskirts of National Health Reform: A Comparative Assessment of Health Insurance and Access to Care in Puerto Rico and the United States. [PDF]

open access: yesThe Milbank Quarterly, 2015
Policy Points: Puerto Rico is the United States’ largest territory, home to nearly 4 million American citizens, yet it has remained largely on the outskirts of US health policy, including the Affordable Care Act (ACA). We analyzed national survey data from 2011 to 2012 and found that despite its far poorer population, Puerto Rico outperforms the ...
Maria Portela, B. Sommers
semanticscholar   +4 more sources

The USA medical insurance as a stimulating factor to increase labour efficiency [PDF]

open access: yesHealth Economics and Management Review, 2023
Medical insurance is critical for state labour efficiency. In many countries (including in the United States of America), it is tightly connected to labour, which makes workers have valid insurance policies for free and constant access to medical aid ...
Vitaliia Koibichuk   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Role of digital health insurance management systems in scaling health insurance coverage in low- and Middle-Income Countries: A case study from Nigeria

open access: yesFrontiers in Digital Health, 2022
BackgroundIncreasing global commitment to Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in the past decade has triggered UHC-inspired reforms and investments to expand health service coverage in many Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs).
Okey Okuzu   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Disparities in health insurance coverage among children and young adults in Georgia and the U.S.

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

The European influence on workers' compensation reform in the United States

open access: yesEnvironmental 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
doaj   +1 more source

Children’s Health Insurance Status and Emergency Room Utilization: An Examination of Complex Survey Data

open access: yesInquiry: 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   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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