When insurers retreat: The governance of wildfire disasters and how FAIR plans allocate climate risk
Abstract As wildfire risk accelerates private insurer retreat, state‐governed FAIR Plans increasingly serve as the primary coverage available in hazard‐prone areas. This paper analyzes these residual markets as instruments of disaster governance, arguing that their design reflects distributive political choices regarding risk allocation.
Katarzyna Klasa
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Health insurance type moderates the association between substance use disorders and cardiovascular multimorbidity among U.S. adults - Results from the 2023 National Survey on Drug use and Health. [PDF]
Ball KM +3 more
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ABSTRACT In 2014, Indonesia took a large step toward Universal Health Coverage and protection from the economic risk of illness—previous health insurance schemes were joined aiming to cover the entire population. This reform made it the largest single‐payer public health insurance scheme worldwide, which covered approximately 77% of Indonesian ...
Lisa Rogge
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Patient Out-of-Pocket Spending on Generic and Brand-Name Prescription Drugs.
Cai CL, Kesselheim AS, Rome BN.
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Long-term complication rates and healthcare utilization after traumatic spinal cord injury are more strongly associated with insurance status than injury mechanism. [PDF]
Elnaggar A +10 more
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Disasters, Dictators, and Donors: The Impact of Foreign Aid on Economic Activity (Mis)Reporting
ABSTRACT This paper examines how governments manipulate economic data to secure more foreign disaster aid. By using nighttime lighting as a reliable measure of economic activity, we make two key findings: (1) foreign disaster aid is positively linked to a country's understatement of its gross domestic product, indicating a deliberate strategy to ...
M. Martin Boyer +2 more
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Social determinants as pathways in disparities in oral cavity cancer stage at diagnosis: a registry-based analysis from 2010-2020. [PDF]
Tortolero GA +5 more
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ABSTRACT The COVID‐19 pandemic triggered historic expansions of the U.S. social safety net to mitigate unprecedented economic hardship. However, increased government spending and program expansions on paper do not automatically translate into equitable access in practice.
Soohyun Yoon, Jeehae Kang
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Social Determinants of Diabetic Retinopathy Severity at Initial Presentation: A Cross-Sectional Study of Data from an Urban Safety Net Hospital. [PDF]
Brandt CH, Padmanabhan SP, O'Brien KS.
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Social Policy and Political Regime Change in Central America
ABSTRACT Does democracy deliver more inclusive and transparent social policy in low‐capacity states? And how does democratic backsliding reshape social policy? Drawing on a comparative analysis of El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua, we examine how regime change and political ideology are associated with patterns of social policy access and ...
Juliana Martínez Franzoni +1 more
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