Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax …-funded, subsidized provision of health care through publicly operated facilities. This paper discusses two rationales for this transition …. First, health insurance would boost fiscal revenues for health care, as post-treatment out-of-pocket payments to providers …

Medical provider price transparency is often touted as a way to lower health care spending. But the impact of price … transparency is theoretically ambiguous: it could lower health care spending via increased consumer price shopping or improved … insurer bargaining but could also raise health care prices via improved provider bargaining or provider collusion. We conduct …

We analyze the economic consequences of rising health care prices in the US. Using exposure to price increases caused … employer-sponsored health insurance premiums. A 1% increase in health care prices lowers both payroll and employment at firms … outside the health sector by approximately 0.4%. At the county level, a 1% increase in health care prices reduces per capita …

I review the key issues that arise in financing health care delivery. I begin by documenting the key features of health … care markets that make financing so central in this sector, such as the skewed and unpredictable nature of health care … spending and market failures in health care delivery. I then review the key issues that public and private payers face in …

behavior, and patient health. Every dollar Medicare spent on monitoring generated $24-29 in government savings. The majority of … the health of the marginal patient is harmed, indicating that monitoring primarily deters low-value care. Monitoring does …

The past century witnessed a dramatic improvement in public health, the rise of modern medicine, and the transformation …