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The Swiss and Dutch Health Insurance Systems: Universal Coverage and Regulated Competitive Insurance Markets [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Compares systems of universal insurance coverage based on individual mandates, consumer choice of health plans, and regulated insurance market competition in Switzerland and the Netherlands. Discusses insights and implications for U.S.
Christian Rutschi   +4 more
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Sustainable financing for vaccination towards advancing universal health coverage in the WHO African region: The strategic role of national health insurance

open access: yesHuman Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
There is a growing political interest in health reforms in Africa, and many countries are choosing national health insurance as their main financing mechanism for universal health coverage.
Abdu A. Adamu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Political Economy of Reform under US Federalism: Adopting Single-Payer Health Coverage in New York State

open access: yesHealth Systems & Reform, 2019
The US remains the only high-income country that lacks a universal health financing system and instead relies on a fragmented system with the largest segment of the population receiving health insurance through private, voluntary employer-sponsored ...
Ashley M. Fox, Yongjin Choi
doaj   +1 more source

Massachusetts Health Reform: Solving the Long-Run Cost Problem [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Outlines options for controlling the long-term costs of the state's universal health insurance, including managed competition, a new public insurance option, a semi-public agency to coordinate programs negotiating rates, and all-payer rate ...
John Holahan, Linda J. Blumberg
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Social Health Insurance a Key for Universal Health Coverage in Nepal

open access: yesJournal of Karnali Academy of Health Sciences, 2023
Social health insurance, which offers financial security and risk sharing for health care expenses, could be the key to achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Nepal. The social health insurance program in Nepal has advanced significantly, but many
Sujan Poudel   +2 more
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THE TIME IS NEVER RIPE: The Repeated Defeat of Universal Health Insurance in the 20th Century United States. TWENTY SIXTH GEARY LECTURE, 1995 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
My presentation for today’s Geary lecture uses a recent episode in US politics - President Bill Clinton’s 1993 Health Security proposal for comprehensive health insurance reform, and the subsequent conservative political backlash against it - as a window
Skocpol, Theda
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The Nigeria national health insurance authority act and its implications towards achieving universal health coverage

open access: yesNigerian Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2022
The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) faced several inherent and systemic drawbacks towards achieving universal health coverage for all Nigerians, and this has led to the signing of the new National Health Insurance Authority Act (NHIA), 2022. This
Tope Michael Ipinnimo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Identifying and Evaluating Equity Provisions in State Health Care Reform [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Identifies state policies that promote equitable access to quality health care and analyzes whether reform proposals in five states meet those equity benchmarks.
Cheryl Fish-Parcham   +2 more
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Understanding variations in health insurance coverage in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Tanzania: Evidence from demographic and health surveys. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2018
BACKGROUND:Realisation of universal health coverage is not possible without health financing systems that ensure financial risk protection. To ensure this, some African countries have instituted health insurance schemes as venues for ensuring universal ...
Hubert Amu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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