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Private Voluntary Health Insurance [PDF]

, 2012
Health care expenditures can be financed through a mix of public resources and private spending. Private spending is a much larger share of total health spending in low- and middle-income countries than in higher income countries. Moreover, a significant percentage of private spending in those countries is out-of-pocket direct payments for health care ...
Greg Brunner, Pablo Gottret, Birgit Hansl, Vijayasekar Kalavakonda, Somil Nagpal, Nicole Tapay   +5 more
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Risk equalisation in voluntary health insurance markets

Health Policy, 2010
Editorial
Armstrong J, PAOLUCCI, FRANCESCO, van de Ven WP   +2 more
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Which Way Voluntary Health Insurance?

New England Journal of Medicine, 1965
MEASURED by the total number of insured people and the total amount of benefits paid out during a given year, voluntary health insurance has made excellent progress in the last thirty years. At the end of 1963 about 145,000,000 Americans, more than 3 out of 4, had "hospital expense coverage," about 135,000,000 "surgical expense coverage," about 102,000,
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Voluntary Health Insurance — Progress and Problems

New England Journal of Medicine, 1957
WHEN they hear the words "changing picture of medical practice" most physicians immediately think of the impressive advances made during the last decade or two in the field of therapeutics. No less important in its impact on the practice of medicine, although less dramatic, has been the progress made during the same period in developing methods of ...
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Voluntary private health insurance and cancer screening utilisation in Europe.

International Journal of Health Planning and Management
BACKGROUND Cancer is a leading cause of death in Europe and prevention measures, like screening, are therefore becoming increasingly important. Although European countries provide universal health coverage, including cancer screenings, many people also ...
A. I. Tavares
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Voluntary private health insurance demand determinants and risk preferences: Evidence from SHARE.

International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2019
The demand for voluntary private health insurance (VPHI) in universal coverage health systems in Europe raises some questions. The aim of this paper is to determine the factors that explain the decision to purchase VPHI, to analyse the role of individual
A. Tavares
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Voluntary Private Health Insurance

2011
The purpose of this article is to examine the working of voluntary private health insurance works. While empirical evidence on the functioning of voluntary private individual health insurance markets is lacking, there is a large and well-developed theoretical literature describing the functioning of private insurance markets in other sectors.
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Voluntary health insurance and out-of-pocket payments in European OECD countries

Economic Modelling, 2023
A. Purcel, C. Dragoș, C. Mare, S. Dragoș   +3 more
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Does voluntary health insurance improve health and longevity? Evidence from European OECD countries

European Journal of Health Economics, 2022
S. Dragoș, C. Mare, C. Dragoș, G. Mureșan, A. Purcel   +4 more
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The interplay between risk adjustment and risk rating in voluntary health insurance

Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2022
Peter Paul Klein, R. V. van Kleef, J. Henriquez, F. Paolucci   +3 more
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