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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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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 Is the Wave of the Future
Archives of Internal Medicine, 1971If America is ever to realize its goal of equal opportunity, every citizen must have access to two things: a good education and sound medical care. With these, every person can go as far as his ability and his energy will take him. A taxfinanced system of health care such as Medicaid goes far toward meeting our obligation to ensure adequate medical ...
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Beyond Universal Health Insurance to Effective Health Care
JAMA, 1991NO ONE, least of all an economist, needs to be persuaded that people who lack money or health insurance are likely to encounter difficulties in obtaining essential health care services. On the other hand, the economist has an obligation to explain that the adoption of a system of universal coverage will not, ipso facto, translate into assured access ...
E, Ginzberg, M, Ostow
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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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Providing Universal Health Insurance Coverage in Nigeria
International Quarterly of Community Health Education, 2016Despite a stated goal of achieving universal coverage, the National Health Insurance Scheme of Nigeria had achieved only 4% coverage 12 years after it was launched. This study assessed the plans of the National Health Insurance Scheme to achieve universal health insurance coverage in Nigeria by 2015 and discusses the challenges facing the scheme in ...
Peter O, Okebukola, William R, Brieger
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The Choice of Health Insurance Plans by University Employees
Journal of Public Health Dentistry, 1987AbstractThis study presents the results of a survey of university employees to determine the factors that were important in the choice between two health insurance plans (CHIP vs traditional). The major differences between the plans were their coverage of hospital services, physician office visits, and routine dental services.
J S, Hand, J D, Beck
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Universal Health Insurance Through Incentives Reform
JAMA, 1991Roughly 35 million Americans have no health care coverage. Health care expenditures are out of control. The problems of access and cost are inextricably related. Important correctable causes include cost-unconscious demand, a system not organized for quality and economy, market failure, and public funds not distributed equitably or effectively to ...
A C, Enthoven, R, Kronick
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The effect of universal health insurance for children in Vietnam
Health Economics, Policy and Law, 2017AbstractOur research investigates the effects of the 2005 universal health insurance program for children under age 6 in Vietnam on health care utilization, household out-of-pocket (OOP) spending and self-reported health outcomes using data from the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey in 2002–2004–2006–2008.
Binh T, Nguyen, Anthony T, Lo Sasso
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The Ethics of Universal Health Insurance
2019Abstract Millions of Americans lack health insurance, and thousands suffer and die every year. Philosophers have argued that an ideal society would avoid these problems by guaranteeing affordable access to health insurance, but what about people’s concerns that a universal health insurance system would be inefficient, create excessive ...
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