The appropriate role of medical professionals in a hospital's top management team is a controversial issue. Clearly, the medical director plays an important part in balancing medical and financial performance. It is perceived wisdom among medics that the medical director's position should be...

How can the international community save more children's lives faster and more effectively in the 21st century? This working paper analyzes the extent to which quot;frontloadingquot; and predictable vaccine funding, as proposed by the International Finance Facility for Immunization (IFFIm), is...

San Antonio used the scrutiny regime to decide whether there was an Equal Protection right to housing. However, Lawrence abolished the scrutiny regime. So how do we evaluate whether there is an education right under Equal Protection? The right to education in the Texas Constitution shows us that...

We examine the determinants of claims for a group health care plan. Since all persons in the group are covered, the premium does not enter the consideration of demand in this case. Hence, we are able to isolate other variables that affect the demand for health insurance. We show that income of...

The budgets of a growing number of older Americans are stressed by mounting debt loads as elders struggle to pay for necessities such as groceries, prescription drugs, and urgent home repairs. Debts levels of the elderly have taken a sharp turn for the worse since the early 1990s. Older persons...

Quality of care is qualified as a main determinant of the demand for voluntary private health insurance (PHI) in National Health Systems (NHS). This paper provides new evidence on the influence of the quality gap between public and private health insurance and other demand determinants in the...

Healthcare financing the world over has been of great concern to both developed and developing countries. Thus, policies on how to finance and provide healthcare to an entire nation to include both the formal and informal sectors, rural and urban areas in low-and-middle-income countries is a...

This paper examines the status of health insurance coverage in the United States including historic data through 2006 on the number and percentage of nonelderly individuals with and without health insurance. Specifically, the paper discusses recent trends in health insurance coverage and some of...

Rationale: The use of reinsurance has been proposed as an alternative to traditional forms of capital for micro health insurance entities. However, there is almost no literature on the ramifications of this substitution, notably the fit of different types of reinsurance and comparisons of the...

To what extent can life protection account for observed diversities in age-specific life expectancies across individuals and over time? We provide answers via calibrated simulations of a life-cycle model where life's end is stochastic, and age-specific mortality hazards are ndogenous outcomes of...