Subscribing to Supplemental Health Insurance in France: A Dynamic Analysis of Adverse Selection [PDF]
Adverse selection, which is well described in the theoretical literature on insurance, remains relatively difficult to study empirically. The traditional approach, which focuses on the binary decision of “covered” or “not”, potentially misses the main ...
Aurélie Pierre +2 more
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Asymmetric Information With Multiple Risks: The Case of the Chilean Private Health Insurance Market
Health Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We extend the Rothshild and Stiglitz (1976) model to two sources of risk –inpatient and outpatient risk– to better proxy real‐world health insurance markets. We uncover an interesting theoretical possibility: Take individuals A and B, who are low risks in, say, the inpatient dimension but A is riskier in the outpatient dimension.
Dolores de la Mata +3 more
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Medicare Part D and Hospital Admissions due to Antimicrobial Resistance
Health Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been increasing rapidly in the United States despite government efforts to contain its spread. Both under‐utilization and overuse of prescribed antimicrobials contribute to rising resistance. The introduction of Medicare Part D in 2006 expanded prescription drug coverage for the elderly, including coverage ...
Ricardo B. Ang III
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Contrasting Inequalities: Comparing Correlates of Health in Canada and the United States [PDF]
Comparative health studies consistently find that Canadians on average are healthier than Americans. Comparing health status within and between Canada and the United States provides key insights into the distribution of inequalities in these two ...
Hugh Armstrong +3 more
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Trends in amenable deaths based on township income quartiles in Taiwan, 1971–2008: did universal health insurance close the gap? [PDF]
, 2015 Brian Chen +2 more
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Geographic and Institutional Patterns of Transoral Robotic Surgery in Head and Neck Cancer
Head &Neck, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) is increasingly used for oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC), yet national patterns of TORS availability for Medicare beneficiaries are not well defined. We characterized hospital type, geographic distribution, and market concentration of TORS.
Daniel Gilmore +9 more
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Impact of Universal Health Insurance on Total Ischemia Time and Door-to-Balloon Time in STEMI: A Single-Center Study from a Geographical Adverse Region. [PDF]
Indian J Community Med, 2022 Upadhyay AN, Dhasmana M, Kumar B.
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Medicare and Disparities in Women's Health [PDF]
We investigate the effect of universal health insurance on health outcome and the use of health services by exploiting a natural experiment that changes the insurance status of most Americans at age 65; that is, eligibility for the U.S. Medicare program.
Carol Rapaport, Sandra Decker
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Archives of Public HealthBackground Financial risk protection is a core component of Universal Health Coverage. Rural residents in China continue to face the higher risk of catastrophic health expenditure.
Liujin Zhang +3 more
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Health insurance for the poor in India [PDF]
Community based health insurance (CBHI) is more suited than alternate arrangements to providing health insurance to the low-income people living in developing countries.
Ahuja, Rajeev
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