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Failure to Protect: Why the Individual Insurance Market Is Not a Viable Option for Most U.S. Families [PDF]
, 2009 Based on the Commonwealth Fund 2007 Biennial Health Insurance Survey, examines access to and affordability of individual insurance. Reviews obstacles to obtaining coverage, such as health issues and costs, and out-of-pocket costs of those who obtain ...
Jennifer L. Nicholson +3 more
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Assessment Of Out-of-Pocket Expenditure for Treatment of Malaria in Surat City
National Journal of Community Medicine, 2016 Introduction: The major burden of vector-borne disease in India comes from malaria; according to the Directorate of the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP), about 95% of the population in the country resides in malaria-endemic areas.
Dhwani Patel +5 more
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Laser surface texturing significantly improves the corrosion resistance and mechanical strength of 3D‐printed iron polylactic acid (Ir‐PLA) for marine applications. Optimal laser parameters reduce corrosion by 80% and enhance tensile strength by 25% and ductility by 15%.
Mohammad Rezayat +6 more
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Benefit Plan Design and Prescription Drug Utilization Among Asthmatics: Do Patient Copayments Matter? [PDF]
Objective: The ratio of controller to reliever medication use has been proposed as a measure of treatment quality for asthma patients. In this study we examine the effects of plan level mean out-of-pocket asthma medication patient copayments and other ...
Ernst R. Berndt +4 more
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Does cost sharing do more harm or more good? - a systematic literature review
BMC Public Health, 2016 Background There are positive and negative consequences of the implementation of out of pocket (OOP) payments as a source of the healthcare financing.
Katarzyna Kolasa, Marta Kowalczyk
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.The tribological behavior of 100Cr6 steel spheres textured via Vickers microindentation is evaluated under lubricated sliding by varying both dimple size and density. Fine and dense textures significantly reduce friction across all lubrication regimes, while large dimples increase it.
Farideh Davoodi +3 more
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Maternity Care and Consumer-Driven Health Plans [PDF]
, 2007 Compares out-of-pocket costs of maternity care under consumer-driven health plans (CDHP) to a traditional health insurance plan. Explores related factors including prenatal care coverage and unpredictability of costs for delivery and hospital ...
Alina Salganicoff +3 more
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Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, 2020 Yawen Jiang,1 Weiyi Ni2 1School of Public Health (Shenzhen), Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Pharmaceutical and Health Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-3333,
Jiang Y, Ni W
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Duplex Stainless Steel Laser‐Surface Textured: Stability in Brine Solution
Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Controlled laser‐surface treatment (LST) of duplex DSS2205 steel is performed to increase its stability in brine solution under cyclic electrochemical assays. The superior protection with respect to flat and smooth panels is attributed to the presence of FeCr2O4 as the main protective oxide layer in the LST surface, after corrosion tests. The stability
Mohammad Rezayat +5 more
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The Effect of the Risk of Out-of-Pocket Spending for Health Care on Economic Preparation for Retirement [PDF]
After retirement, the primary sources of uncertainty with respect to an individual’s economic status are longevity, investment outcomes and out-of-pocket spending on health care.
Michael D. Hurd, Susann Rohwedder
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