Price elasticity of demand for voluntary health insurance plans in Colombia [PDF]
BMC Health Services Research, 2022 Background Since 1993, Colombia has had a mandatory social health insurance scheme that aims to provide universal health coverage to all citizens. However, some contributory regime participants purchase voluntary private health insurance (VPHI) to access
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The role of risk preferences: voluntary health insurance in rural Tanzania [PDF]
Health Economics Review, 2023 Background Lower-middle-income countries (LMICs) have a common goal to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) through voluntary health insurance schemes.
Alphoncina Kagaigai, Sverre Grepperud
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Healthcare utilization and catastrophic health expenditure in rural Tanzania: does voluntary health insurance matter? [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2023 Background Over 150 million people, mostly from low and middle-income countries (LMICs) suffer from catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) every year because of high out-of-pocket (OOP) payments.
Alphoncina Kagaigai +3 more
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Can Voluntary Health Insurance for Non-reimbursed Expensive New Treatments Be Just? [PDF]
Public Health Ethics, 2023 Public healthcare systems are increasingly refusing (temporarily) to reimburse newly approved medical treatments of insufficient or uncertain cost-effectiveness.
Jilles Smids, E. Bunnik
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Voluntary Public Health Insurance [PDF]
Public Choice, 2014 We look at the consequences of allowing public health insurance (PuHI) to be voluntary when its coverage can be supplemented in the market. PuHI redistributes with respect to risk and income, and the market is affected by adverse selection. We argue that
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Voluntary health insurance as a source of funding for the health care system: the world’s experience and Ukraine [PDF]
Insurance Markets and Companies, 2020 In the conditions of insufficient budgetary financing of the health care system and low quality of medical care in the state medical establishments of Ukraine, the importance of extra-budgetary sources of financing becomes increasingly relevant. One such
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Extending voluntary health insurance to the informal sector: experiences and expectations of the informal sector in Kenya [PDF]
Wellcome Open Res, 2017 Background: Kenya has made a policy decision to use contributory health insurance as one of its key pre-payment health financing mechanisms. The National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) is the main health insurer in Kenya.
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Whether or not to enroll, and stay enrolled? A Tanzanian cross-sectional study on voluntary health insurance [PDF]
Health Policy Open, 2023 Alphoncina Kagaigai +3 more
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Voluntary Health Insurance expenditure in low- and middle-income countries: Exploring trends during 1995–2012 and policy implications for progress towards universal health coverage [PDF]
Int J Equity Health, 2016 BackgroundMost low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) rely significantly on private health expenditure in the form of out-of-pocket payments (OOP) and voluntary health insurance (VHI).
L. Pettigrew, I. Mathauer
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High-risk individuals in voluntary health insurance markets: the elephant in the room?
Health Economics, Policy and LawThe standard analytical framework of insurance markets by Einav and Finkelstein (EF) focuses on the problem of welfare loss for low-risk individuals.
Florian Buchner, Frederik T. Schut
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