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Medical care within an OLG economy with realistic demography
Frankovic, Ivan; Kuhn, Michael; Wrzaczek, Stefan - 2016
We study the role of health care within a continuous time economy of overlapping generations subject to endogenous mortality. The economy consists of two sectors: final goods production and a health care sector, selling medical services to individuals. Individuals demand health care with a view...
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The health of nations : a transatlantic trade and investment agenda for better healthcare
Erixon, Fredrik; Ferracane, Martina F.; Van der Marel, Erik - 2015
Today, increases in the demand for healthcare are driving European governments to look for ways to control growth in healthcare expenditures and at the same time improve health outcomes. Consideration of ways to enhance trade in healthcare goods and services is important for governments as they...
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Pharmaceutical Cost-Sharing Systems and Savings for Health Care Systems from Parallel Trade
Birg, Laura - 2013
This paper analyzes the consequences of parallel trade on health care systems in a two-country model with a vertical distributor relationship. In particular, two cost-sharing systems coinsurance and indemnity insurance are compared with respect to changes in copayments and public health...
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Out-of-Pocket Payments in the Post-Semashko Health Care System
Shishkin, Sergey - 2014
This paper presents the analysis results of existing practices of out-of-pocket payments in the Russian post-Semashko health care system. It was carried out based on the data reflected in the ‘Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey' from 1991-2012 and data of the ‘Georating' survey carried...
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The Henry Fords of Healthcare
Sanandaji, Nima - 2021
Health systems in Western countries are plagued by inefficiency and will likely require a substantial increase in the tax burden as populations age. Patients might also face a gradual decrease in the quality and scope of services. The organisational changes needed to drive costs down and...
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Quality of Health Care After Adopting a Full-Replacement, High-Deductible Health Plan With a Health Savings Account : A Five-Year Study
Fronstin, Paul; Roebuck, M. Christopher - 2014
, office visits increased for HSA-eligible health plan enrollees, but were mostly unchanged for the comparison group. By the … were down slightly relative to the comparison group. Rates of LDL testing for adults with cardiovascular disease were … plan than in the comparison group. In contrast, cervical cancer screening was lower among HSA-eligible health plan …
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Large Health Savings Accounts : A Step Toward Tax Neutrality for Health Care
Cannon, Michael F. - 2007
The creation of tax-free health savings accounts presents a new opportunity to reduce the distortions created by federal tax preferences for health-related expenditures, and ultimately help eliminate those distortions. This paper proposes changes to current law that would allow most workers to...
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Lessons for Health Care Policy in the United States : Comparing Health Care Systems
Aspalter, Christian - 2012
This paper compares health care systems. It looks beyond normal academic, political, or journalistic rhetoric, by exactly sticking to facts, i.e. empirical data (in particular data provided by the WHO) and comprehensive case study analyses. The paper finds that a number of myths and common...
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Reviving Progressive Activism : How a Human Rights Movement Won the Country’s First Universal Health Care Law
Rudiger, Anja - 2015
With the passage of Act 48 in May 2011, Vermont has become the first U.S. state to enact a law for a universal, publicly financed health care system. The state is on course for implementing a single payer system by 2017. This first breakthrough in the decades-long struggle for universal health...
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Health care expenditure and the state of health care sector in selected European Union countries
Hady, Joanna; Leśniowska, Małgorzata - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 7 (2011) 4, pp. 25-36
concludes with a comparison of the state of the Polish system to the state of the systems in other European countries …
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