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The Impact of a Private Supplement to Public Health Care : The Mexico Diabetes Experiment

Bronsoler, Ari; Gruber, Jonathan; Seira, Enrique - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

There are ongoing debates around the world over the value of private supplements to public health insurance systems. We investigate this issue in the context of one of the world's deadliest diseases, diabetes, and one of the countries with the worst diabetes problems in the world, Mexico. We...

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The Impact of Public Health Policy : The Case of Community Health Centers

Goldman, Fred - 1982

The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of the Community Health Center (CHC) on health levels in the U.S. Using infant mortality as the underlying health indicator, a time series of large counties as the data set, and multivariate regression techniques, we investigate the extent to which...

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The Role of Public Health Improvements in Health Advances : The 20th Century United States

Cutler, David M. - 2004

Mortality rates in the US fell more rapidly during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries than any other period in American history. This decline coincided with an epidemiological transition and the disappearance of a mortality "penalty" associated with living in urban areas. There is little...

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Public Policy for Health Care

Cutler, David M. - 1996

This paper reviews the public sector role in the provision of health care. A first role of the government is to use tax policy to correct externalities associated with individual behaviors. Estimates suggest that the external effects of many `sins' such as alcohol consumption are greater than...

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Does Universal Coverage Improve Health? The Massachusetts Experience

Courtemanche, Charles J. - 2012

In 2006, Massachusetts passed health care reform legislation designed to achieve nearly universal coverage through a combination of insurance market reforms, mandates, and subsidies that later served as the model for national reform. Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance...

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The Prices in the Crises : What We Are Learning from Twenty Years of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Das, Jishnu; Đỗ-Quý-Toàn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

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...

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Vaccination Policy, Delayed Care, and Health Expenditures

Aslim, Erkmen Giray; Fu, Wei; Liu, Chia-Lun; Tekin, Erdal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected the United States healthcare system, resulting in major disruptions in the delivery of essential care and causing crippling financial losses that threaten the viability of millions of medical practices. There is little empirical evidence on the types...

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Organizational Fragmentation and Care Quality in the U.S. Health Care System

Cebul, Randall D. - 2008

Many goods and services can be readily provided through a series of unconnected transactions, but in health care close coordination over time and within care episodes improves both health outcomes and efficiency. Close coordination is problematic in the US health care system because the...

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Health Plan Payment in Medicaid Managed Care : A Hybrid Model of Regulated Competition

Layton, Timothy - 2017

insurance system that relies most heavily on the tools of regulated competition with more than 60% of its enrollees enrolled in … a private health plan in 2014. However, regulated competition in Medicaid differs from the typical model, emphasizing … competition and some potential consequences of this hybrid model …

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Health Plan Payment in U.S. Marketplaces : Regulated Competition with a Weak Mandate

Layton, Timothy - 2017

of the individual insurance market, the Marketplaces invoke many of the principles of regulated competition including … the tools of regulated competition. We then discuss ways in which the Marketplace model deviates from the more …

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