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After years of stagnation and political cataclysms, Georgia tried to recover by launching radical economic and political reforms starting in 2004. The results of the reforms appeared to be impressive. The country's GDP has more than doubled; the total volume of bank deposits is five times what it...
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The paper provides an analysis of the determinants of health spending differentials among the Italian Regions for the … in terms of differences between historical and standard expenditure needs is reflected in regional health systems … quantity of health services supplied rather than by reducing inefficiency …
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more precisely to be – expenses on education, health care and social insurance. It is well known the fact that not all … regarding men and women could be more clearly observed in such domains like education, health care and social insurance …
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In the early 1990s, several U.S. states enacted community rating regulations to equalize the health insurance premiums … substantial public insurance expansions, coverage rates in several of these states had improved significantly. As theory predicts … the incidence of public insurance and community rating regulations are tightly intertwined …
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We study how the optimal public provision of health care depends on whether or not individuals have an option to seek … incentive to over-provide health care to low-income individuals. When cross-border health care takes place, this incentive is … solely explained by that over-provision facilitates redistribution. The reason why more health care facilitates …
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We study how the optimal public provision of health care depends on whether or not individuals have an option to seek … incentive to over-provide health care to low-income individuals. When cross-border health care takes place, this incentive is … solely explained by that over-provision facilitates redistribution. The reason why more health care facilitates …
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health insurance choices of the elderly. We find that having more social interactions, as measured by contacts with friends … the health insurance choices of the elderly and provide suggestive evidence that word-of-mouth information sharing may …Using data from the 1998 Wave of the Health and Retirement Study, we examine the effect of social interactions on the …
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This paper estimates the effects of a workplace health promotion program adopted in selected bluecollar trades in …, mixed evidence is found for a reduction in use of publicly financed health care services, at least in the shortand …
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government-provided health insurance programs such as Medicaid …In this study, we document the effect of Food Stamp access on adult health care utilization. While Food Stamps is one … or mental health, or due to individuals with common chronic health conditions, leaving open the possibility that changes …
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://ssrn.com/abstract=2363398This text seeks to identify the objective and subjective aspects of rights to an existential minimum in health care … serious mistake to try to handle public health conflicts according to the typical judicial principles governing conflicts … under private law, because that distorts the public health system, with judicial orders that depart from the universal …
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