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it disseminated public health information, Mexico was able to mobilize in this area—something the U.S. handled less …
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"competitive" health insurance markets. I use the insurance choices of senior citizens in the U.S. as an example. I then consider … the issue of whether consumers benefit when we create more choice by letting private firms offer health insurance in … (ii) empirical results show that consumers are very confused about their health insurance options. Thus, I argue …
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financing health care in an ageing society with the low rates of growth that will characterise western industrialised economies … proposal is presented: The Welfare Funds. Long-term investors offering both pension and health care benefist, and connected …
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This study empirically investigates determinants of enlistment in the U.S. Army over the period 1974 through 2008. The emphasis is on the impacts of both the availability of free medical care and the challenges of addressing higher medical care inflation. The study estimates reveal that the...
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India’s health care and health financing provision is characterized by too little Government spending on health, meager … health insurance coverage, declining public health care use contrasted by highest levels of private out-of-pocket health … framework of health insurance and health care revisits the existing health insurance schemes and assesses the health insurance …
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Having low income is one of the requirements for Medicaid eligibility. Given that earning ability is unobservable, once an individual with high labor income stops working it is impossible to distinguish him from those whose potential labor income is low. This can affect the ability of Medicaid...
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Health insurance reform in Massachusetts lowered the financial cost of both pregnancy (by increased coverage of … health insurance coverage. This finding, however, masks substantial heterogeneity. For married women aged 20 to 34 – who have …
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Service (EMS) – popularly known in the state as ‘108’ services, witnessing evolving pre-hospital care integrated with definite … health care and Rajiv Aryogyasri (RAS), a health insurance scheme to cover the catastrophic health expenditure of BPL …
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The efficiency of Turkish health system, which was restructured by the health transformation framework, depends on the … mutual compliance of both health service providers and demanders. The future and success of the new health system may be … health services. This study analitically evaluates the new health system structured by the transformation of health during …
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the determinants of health expenditure in Malaysia within the time series … relationship. The results showed that health expenditure and its determinants are cointegrated. Consistent with economic theory …, the TYDL and variance decomposition analysis reveals that the key explanatory variables in Malaysia’s health expenditure …
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