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. Our findings suggest that the ACA Medicaid expansions had important financial impacts beyond health care use. …
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Elements of regulation inherent in most social health insurance systems are a uniform package of benefits and uniform … relationship between age and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for additional options in Swiss social health insurance. Through discrete …
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Regulation fostering Managed Care alternatives in health insurance is spreading. This work reports on an experiment …-Care type restrictions in the provision of health care. It finds that restrictions on the freedom of physician choice would … social health insurance. …
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One of the main features of health insurance is moral hazard, as defined by Pauly (1968); people face incentives for … individuals on what coinsurance rate should be set with public health insurance, and we establish conditions for a median …
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We study the dependence of health insurance availability of near-elderly inpatients in the United States with respect …
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Community based health insurance (CBHI) is more suited than alternate arrangements to providing health insurance to the … low-income people living in developing countries. The universal health insurance scheme, launched recently by the Prime … of CBHI schemes prevalent in the country.The development of private health insurance market in the country will not leave …
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Previous research suggests that there are substantial interactions between the unemployment insurance (UI) and the sickness insurance (SI) in Sweden. Moral hazard arises in the interplay between these two social insurance systems, since by reporting sick an unemployed person can postpone the UI...
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This paper looks at a specific type of moral hazard that arises in the interplay between two large public insurance systems in Sweden, namely the sickness insurance (SI) and the unemployment insurance (UI). Moral hazard can arise from the benefit size structure as for some unemployed persons,...
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The paper examines whether a worker's sick absence behaviour influences the risk of becoming unemployed. Swedish panel data are used to estimate the relationship between the incidence and duration of sick leave and subsequent unemployment. The results indicate that an increase in the number of...
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This paper examines the incentive effects caused by the interactions between unemployment insurance (UI) and sickness insurance (SI), two important components of Sweden's social insurance system. There are two main topics of interest: how the sickness report rate and the length of the subsequent...
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