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Optimal social health insurance with supplementary private insurance
Journal of Health Economics, 1999This paper investigates the structure of a National Health Service in which there is compulsory social insurance covering a package of essentials, a given part of individuals' health expenditure, and supplementary private policy topping up the remaining services.
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2014
This article explores the development, the present condition, and the likely future of private health insurance in the United States. It emphasizes the three kinds of fragmentation that mark American health care: scattered oversight, multiple risk pools, and inchoate government.
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This article explores the development, the present condition, and the likely future of private health insurance in the United States. It emphasizes the three kinds of fragmentation that mark American health care: scattered oversight, multiple risk pools, and inchoate government.
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Private Health Insurance Exchanges
Compensation & Benefits Review, 2015The Affordable Care Act of 2010 created a number of federal and state exchanges through which buyers and sellers of health care services conduct business. Some private health insurance exchanges had existed before the Affordable Care Act, mainly for Medicare-eligible retirees.
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Private Voluntary Health Insurance [PDF]
, 2012 Health care expenditures can be financed through a mix of public resources and private spending. Private spending is a much larger share of total health spending in low- and middle-income countries than in higher income countries. Moreover, a significant percentage of private spending in those countries is out-of-pocket direct payments for health care ...
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Mandated Mental Health Benefits in Private Health Insurance
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 1982Eleven states mandate coverage of inpatient and outpatient mental health care in private health insurance. Health insurers have objected to these laws on the grounds that they interfere with consumer choice of health insurance benefits and are too costly. This paper analyzes the benefits and costs of mandates for psychotherapy.
T G, McGuire, J T, Montgomery
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Promoting Private Health Insurance In Australia
Health Affairs, 2001Health insurance policy in Australia has been distinguished by considerable instability over the past five years. This paper reviews the rationale and emerging evidence on three major policy initiatives--a move to allow selective contracting, the introduction of a 30 percent government subsidy for private health insurance, and the abolition of pure ...
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2018
With over 28,000 beds, private hospitals account for a third of all acute hospital beds in Australia. Private hospitals tend to be located in major cities and attract patients from higher socio-economic demographics than public hospitals.
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With over 28,000 beds, private hospitals account for a third of all acute hospital beds in Australia. Private hospitals tend to be located in major cities and attract patients from higher socio-economic demographics than public hospitals.
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Voluntary Private Health Insurance
2011The purpose of this article is to examine the working of voluntary private health insurance works. While empirical evidence on the functioning of voluntary private individual health insurance markets is lacking, there is a large and well-developed theoretical literature describing the functioning of private insurance markets in other sectors.
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Lessons from Private Health Insurance
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 1979All across the country there is a sense of urgency, and even of crisis over what is happening in the health industry. Of special concern are the rapid rate of increase in the cost of health care services and the increasing national expenditures for health care. For fiscal year 1976, the total U.S.
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[Health management in private health insurance].
Versicherungsmedizin, 2000German private health insurance faces new challenges. The classical tools of cost containment are no longer sufficient to keep up with ever increasing expenses for health care, and international competitors with managed care experience from their home markets are on the point of entering business in Germany.
D J, Ziegenhagen, M K, Schilling
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