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The Effects of Reinsurance in Financing Children's Health Care
This paper examines the effects of reinsurance on the financial performance of health plans serving enrollees in a State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
David E.M. Sappington +4 more
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Does High-Risk Pool Coverage Meet the Needs of People at Risk for Disability?
State high-risk insurance pools serve people denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions. With benefit plans modeled on the individual market, these pools generally require higher out-of-pocket expenditures and provide fewer benefits than employer-
Jean P. Hall, Janice M. Moore
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The Massachusetts Infertility Insurance Mandate: not nearly enough
Objective: To assess the impact of statutory federal and state exceptions to the state law mandating insurance coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility.
Katherine G. Koniares, M.D. +3 more
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Background Factors that decrease independence and increase morbidity must be reduced to improve the nutrition, health, and other challenges confronting older adults.
Mary Beth Arensberg +4 more
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The Role of ERISA Preemption in Health Reform: Opportunities and Limits [PDF]
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) is a federal law regulating the administration of private employer-sponsored benefits including health benefits (i.e., health insurance offered by an employer).
Jacobson, Peter D.
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Promoting Public Health through State Cancer Control Plans: A Review of Capacity and Sustainability
The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control’s National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program oversees Comprehensive Cancer Control (CCC) programs designed to develop and implement CCC plans via CCC coalitions, alliances or consortia of program ...
Marcia G Ory +3 more
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Background Australia experiences a high incidence of natural emergencies and Australian governments have committed significant investment into emergency preparedness and response.
Karleen Gribble +2 more
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Supplementary Health and aging after 19 years of regulation: where are we now?
The present article aims to analyze the changes in supplementary health and their effects on the adherence to and maintenance within health plans of the elderly, to demonstrate the current state of the care model offered, and to begin the debate ...
Martha Oliveira +2 more
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Community-based health coverage at the crossroad; the Muhammadiyah health fund in Indonesia
This paper discusses the complexities of community-based health insurance (CBHI) coordinated by faith-based NGOs in Indonesia, and how government health care schemes threaten community-based health care plans.
Agus Mohammad Samsudin, Harjanto Prabowo
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The Prevalence of Formal Risk Adjustment in Health Plan Purchasing
This paper describes the prevalence of formal risk adjustment of payments made to health plans by Medicare, Medicaid, state governments, and private payers.
Patricia Seliger Keenan +3 more
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