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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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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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Health Affairs, 2022
This study aimed to determine levels of health insurance coverage in low- and middle-income countries and how coverage varies by people's sociodemographic characteristics.
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This study aimed to determine levels of health insurance coverage in low- and middle-income countries and how coverage varies by people's sociodemographic characteristics.
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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 in Canada
Journal of Community Health, 1979This paper describes the universal health insurance program in Canada and identifies the historical events and social values leading to its adoption. Universal hospital insurance was adopted in 1958, ten years before medical insurance, as a result hospital-based patterns of practice were solidified.
E, Vayda, R G, Evans, W R, Mindell
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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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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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Making Universal Health Insurance Survive
2022This chapter discusses the challenges the Japanese health care system faced during the late 1960s to the 1970s. During this time, the country entered a new phase of economic and political circumstances in which the economy showed it was not as strong as the Japanese people had thought. Government officials began to realize that the era of Japan's rapid
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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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Hawaii's Near-Universal Health Insurance—Lessons Learned
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 1993To date, Hawaii is the only state to have implemented near-universal health insurance. The cornerstone of this program is the country's only requirement that employers provide health insurance for all employees who work at least 20 hours per week. Combined with low unemployment, voluntary modified community rating by health insurers, and expanded ...
E T, Baumgartner, B, Grossmann, L, Fuddy
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