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Parallel private health insurance in Australia : a cautionary tale and lessons for Canada
Hurley, Jeremiah E.; Vaithianathan, Rhema; Crossley, … - 2002
) exit to private insurance. Australia provides a particularly promising case study for Canada regarding the dynamics of … parallel systems of public and private finance. This paper examines Australia's experience with parallel finance for inpatient … of the broader political economy associated with parallel systems of finance. Australia's experience provides a number of …
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Impact of time of diagnosis on out-of-pocket costs of cancer treatment, a side effect of health insurance design in Australia
Naghsh Nejad, Maryam; Van Gool, Kees - 2024
The Extended Medicare Safety Net (EMSN) in Australia was designed to provide financial assistance to patients with high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014502936
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Do market incentives in the hospital industry affect subjective health perceptions? : evidence from the Italian PPS-DRG reform
Cappellari, renzo; De Paoli, Anna; Turati, Gilberto - 2014
We exploit time variation across Italian Regions in the implementation of a prospective pay systems (PPS) for hospitals based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) to assess their impact on self-assessed health status and on the use of health care services. We consider a survey of more than 600,000...
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A dynamic analysis of the demand for health insurance and health care
Bolhaar, Jonneke (contributor);  … - 2008
We investigate the presence of moral hazard and advantageous or adverse selection in a market for supplementary health insurance. For this we specify and estimate dynamic models for health insurance decisions and health care utilization. Estimates of the health care utilization models indicate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755954
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The effect of private health insurance on medical care utilization and self-assessed health in Germany
Hullegie, Patrick; Klein, Tobias J. - 2010
In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is universal, co-payments and deductibles are moderate, and premia are based on income. However, they may buy private insurance instead if their income exceeds the compulsory...
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Opt out or top up? : voluntary healthcare insurance and the public vs. private substitution
Fabbri, Daniele; Monfardini, Chiara - 2011
We investigate whether people enrolled into voluntary health insurance (VHI) substitute public consumption with private (opt out) or just enlarge their private consumption, without reducing reliance upon public provisions (top up). We study the case of Italy, where a mixed insurance system is in...
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Introducing risk adjustment and free health plan choice in employer-based health insurance : evidence from Germany
Pilny, Adam; Wübker, Ansgar; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2017
To equalize differences in health plan premiums due to differences in risk pools, the German legislature introduced a simple Risk Adjustment Scheme (RAS) based on age, gender and disability status in 1994. In addition, effective 1996, consumers gained the freedom to choose among hundreds of...
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Exit, voice or loyalty? : an investigation into mandated portability of front-loaded private health plans
Atal, Juan Pablo; Fang, Hanming; Karlsson, Martin; … - 2017
We study theoretically and empirically how consumers in an individual private longterm health insurance market with front-loaded contracts respond to newly mandated portability requirements of their old-age provisions. To foster competition, effective 2009, the German legislature made the...
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Health insurance expansions and provider behavior : evidence from substance use disorder providers
Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Popovici, Ioana; Stern, … - 2017
We examine how substance use disorder (SUD) treatment providers respond to private health insurance expansions induced by state equal coverage ('parity') laws for SUD treatment. We use data on the near universe of specialty SUD treatment providers in the United States between 1997 and 2010 in an...
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Impacts of shifting responsibility for high-cost individuals on health insurance exchange plan premiums and cost-sharing provisions
Mukhopadhyay, Sankar; Wendel, Jeanne; Zou, Miaomiao - 2018
States with Section 1332 Waivers to operate high-risk pools (HRPs) or reinsurance programs can receive federal pass through funds equal to reductions in federal expenditures generated by the Waiver. Shifting financial responsibility for high-cost individuals out of the Health Insurance Exchange...
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