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Private health insurance coverage-related lawsuits [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2020 Objectives: to analyze lawsuits brought by beneficiaries of health insurance operators. Methods: this was a cross-sectional descriptive study carried out in a large-capacity private health insurance operator using data collected by the company from 2012
Ana Beatriz Perez Afonso +4 more
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ROMANIA’S PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE MARKET POTENTIAL [PDF]
Annals of the University of Petrosani: Economics, 2012 The significant gap between the quality of life and the level of health expenditure has led to the need to reconsider the modalities and the sources of collecting and redirecting the funds of the sanitary sector in such a way that sustainable medical ...
GHEORGHE MATEI, BIANCA VOLINTIRU
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Private health insurance and hospitalization under Japanese national health insurance [PDF]
The Open Economics Journal, 2009 We empirically examine how the decision to purchase private health insurance and hospitalization are made based on labor income, socio-demographic factors, and private health insurance.
Chen, Chia-ching +4 more
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Private supplemental health insurance: retirees' demand [PDF]
The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, 2008 In France, private health insurance, that supplements public health insurance, is essential for access to health care. About 90% of the population is covered by a private contract and around half of them obtain their coverage through their employer ...
Aurelie Pierre +2 more
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Private health insurance in Canada [PDF]
, 2020 Although a majority of Canadians hold some form of private health care insurance -- most commonly obtained as an employment benefit -- private insurance finances only 12% of health care expenditures in Canada and its financing role is essentially limited to complementary coverage for services not covered by public insurance programs.
Jeremiah Hurley, Emmanuel Guindon
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Private Health Insurance [PDF]
, 2020 Can private health insurance fill gaps in publicly financed coverage? Does it enhance access to health care or improve efficiency in health service delivery? Will it provide fiscal relief for governments struggling to raise public revenue for health? This book examines the successes, failures and challenges of private health insurance globally through ...
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The impacts of health insurance on financial strain for people with chronic diseases
BMC Public Health, 2021 Background Due to ongoing expenses for both short-term and long-term needs for health services, people with chronic diseases tend to struggle with financial hardship.
Zixuan Peng, Li Zhu
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Effect of private health insurance on the socio-economic development of Serbia [PDF]
Војно дело, 2015 The main objective of this paper is to estimate the possibilities for effective expansion of the market of private health insurance in the territory of the Republic of Serbia, as well as the social and economic impact that the expansion of this market ...
Andrejić Marko D. +2 more
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The development of voluntary private health insurance in the Nordic countries
Nordic Journal of Health Economics, 2016 The Nordic countries represent an institutional setting with tax-based health care financing and universal access to health care services. Very few health care services are excluded from what are offered within the publically financed health care system.
Nina Alexandersen +5 more
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Health Insurance for Cancer Care in Asia: Thailand
Asia-Pacific Journal of Oncology Nursing, 2016 Thailand has a universal multi-payer system with two main types of health insurance: National Health Security Office or public health insurance and private insurance.
Pongpak Pittayapan
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