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Financing Universal Health Insurance: Taxes, Premiums, and the Lessons of Social Insurance
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 1992In a society with strong antitax sentiment and large government deficits, the enactment of universal health insurance is blocked by an impasse over financing. The two chief mechanisms for funding universal health insurance are taxes and insurance premiums. Taxes and premiums are not distinct entities; rather, a spectrum of financing methods exists with
Thomas Bodenheimer, Kevin Grumbach
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2017
Continuation of the struggle for national health insurance. Bill Clinton’s attempt to reform national health insurance, a cause taken up by Barack Obama, who in large part succeeded with his Affordable Care Act, passed in 2010. A major theme of the chapter is how the aim of universal health insurance, and so serving the poor, came to be overshadowed by
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Continuation of the struggle for national health insurance. Bill Clinton’s attempt to reform national health insurance, a cause taken up by Barack Obama, who in large part succeeded with his Affordable Care Act, passed in 2010. A major theme of the chapter is how the aim of universal health insurance, and so serving the poor, came to be overshadowed by
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The Skeptic's Guide to a Movement for Universal Health Insurance
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 2003The social movement has become institutionalized as a form of political action. The aim of this article is to evaluate the possibilities presented by this form as a strategy to bring about universal health insurance in the United States. I draw on the work of social movement theorists, on the substantial body of empirical research on health-related ...
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Achieving Universal Health Insurance
2022This chapter shows how two crisis moments—World War II and the U.S.-led occupation—that Japan had experienced created and improved the foundation of the country's health insurance system from the top down. The Ministry of Health and Welfare held power by allying with the military during the war and with the occupation officers during the postwar ...
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Universal Health Insurance—Let the Debate Resume
JAMA, 2003The article by The Physicians' Working Group for Single-Payer National Health Insurance in this issue of THE JOURNAL should re-energize the much needed debate on universal health insurance. More than 40 million Americans lack health insurance and nearly 60 million are without health insurance for a portion of the year.
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Consolidating Universal Health Insurance
2022This chapter describes the political battles of the 1960s and how they settled issues regarding national health insurance. Japanese politics underwent a change in this period. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) continued to be in power, but it faced challenges and had to transform its policy priorities. The JMA, with Tarō Takemi as its president, tried
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Governing universal health insurance in Korea and Taiwan
International Journal of Social Welfare, 2008This article examines policy responses to the rising costs of healthcare in the Republic of Korea and Taiwan from a governance perspective. It tries to answer why the two countries responded differently to a similar set of challenges facing their National Health Insurance (NHI).
Huck-ju Kwon, Fen-ling Chen
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Does Health Insurance Matter? Health beyond Universal Coverage
Health & Social Work, 2010In the days preceding President Obama's Health Care Summit, a debate broke out over whether expanding health care coverage actually saves lives (Kaiser Health News, 2010). The discussion was initiated by Megan McArdle (2010), who raised the "possibility" that "no one risks death by going without health insurance." As evidence, she pointed in part to ...
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The Case for Universal Health Insurance
2019Abstract The previous chapters have examined three significant objections to universal health insurance—objections focused on fiscal risk, efficacy, and personal cost. This chapter synthesizes the responses to those concerns, revealing that they fit together into a single, coherent outlook on the ethics of health care.
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Universal Health Insurance: Its Time Has Come
New England Journal of Medicine, 1989Over a year ago I said that "we urgently need a new and more comprehensive approach to health policy. . ." and noted that the National Leadership Commission on Health Care was planning to propose such an approach by the end of 1988.* The Commission's report has not been released as of this writing, and when it is I expect to comment further.
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