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This study uses a hospital setting to explore incentives and performance in organizations that are subsidized by taxes and governed by elected boards of directors. This governance system introduces incentives to over-monitor CEO performance, constraining administrative decision-making and...
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Deductibles in health insurance are often regarded as a means to contain health care costs when individuals exhibit moral hazard. However, in the absence of moral hazard, voluntarily chosen deductibles may instead lead to self-selection into different insurance contracts. We use a set of new...
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The debate over government-provided insurance for Americans frequently makes two assumptions: that the uninsured are unsatisfied with the health care they receive and that government health insurance would improve the quality of care for the uninsured. This paper finds that the vast majority of...
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This paper evaluates the impact of three insurance policy parameters; the deductible, the coinsurance rate, and the out-of-pocket expense limit, on incentives for individuals to economize on health care spending, health plan costs, and household financial risk. High-deductible health plans are...
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Institutional arrangements for the governance of CEO pay and turnover in English NHS Hospital Trusts replicate best practice for listed companies but with the additional feature of centrally imposed performance measurement. In this paper we investigate the impact of this unique combination of...
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OBJECTIVES: To estimate the amount of government health budget required for the extension of universal access to renal replacement therapy (RRT) for beneficiaries of the universal health care coverage (UC) scheme in Thailand. Ability to bear the increasing budget of the government and...
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Rationale: International priority setting in the fight against global epidemics calls for new approaches to quantify the effects of diseases on entire economies and groups of countries. Objective: We aim to estimate the full social costs of HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe, using the...
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Private and public third-party payers - particularly Medicare - are experimenting with financial incentives that reward health care providers for delivering recommended medical care. While quot;pay for performancequot; (P4P) has the potential to improve quality in some instances, it can also...
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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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Does medical insurance affect health care demand and in the end contribute to improvements in the health status? Evidence for China for the year 2004, by means of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), shows that health insurance does not affect health care demand in a significant manner....
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