The share of health-care spending in GDP has been rising rapidly in the United States and other advanced industrial … that improve the quality of life and extend its duration. ; A potential flipside to rising health-care costs, however, is … declining health-care coverage. As documented in a recent report from the U.S. Census Bureau (DeNavas-Walt et al. 2006), the …

general emphasis in the health economics literature on sample selection instead of insurance endogeneity therefore seems … demand estimation. Our semiparametic approach models expenditures simultaneously with the choice of insurance plan and the … that the recent Medicaid expansions may not help all children attain good health. The results are sensitive to assumptions …

A look at some of the reasons behind the ascent in health care costs over the last few decades and an analysis of how …

We examine the welfare effects of the interaction of three types of technological progress in medicine and health … insurance; some paradoxes emerge. The model specifies three types of people: W (well); H (sick with high cure rate if treated …); and L (sick with low cure rate if treated). There are four insurance modes: Indemnity (I): fully covered treatments for Hs …

all, patients. If individuals are ignorant of their health status ex ante, they should be willing to purchase insurance … similarly induce Ls to forgo treatment but are rare in health insurance markets. They were once more common and remain so in non-health … markets. This paper reviews the potential for health insurance indemnities. We model an insurance market for a single illness …

clinics, called Family Health Centers, on a walk-in basis. Although reducing fertility was not specified among the goals of … the reform, reproductive-health and family-planning services have been covered under the FMP. To establish causality, we … 20-29. These results can be explained by increased access to and reduced cost of reproductive-health and family …

Objective: To identify factors for healthcare utilization and to describe effect of Mutual Health Insurance on health … utilization. Conclusion: Enrolment to mutual health insurance increases healthcare utilization. Presence of illness in the … Health Insurance scheme should be targeted during escalating of healthcare utilization. …