study is on determining whether a lack of health insurance significantly impacted vaccination propensities. If it is indeed … the case that a lack of health insurance mattered, this would be informative for policymakers since they tried to address … vaccines were made available free of cost to the public in the United States, irrespective of their insurance status. A policy …

A famous idea to maintain affordable health expenditures is to cut back statutory health insurance (SHI) to a basic … insurance and to introduce supplementary private health insurance (PHI), permitted to cover the remaining benefits and to apply … managed care mechanisms. The measure is supposed to lower public health expenditures and to enhance cost efficiency and …

Individual moral hazard engendered by health insurance and monopolistic production are both typical phenomena of drug … insurance against the risk of drug expenses. In contrast, the social welfare criterion suggests that individuals should purchase … more insurance coverage than they choose to do in the market equilibrium. …

account (covering education and training), and a health account (covering insurance against sickness and disability). Instead … health and education services, providing social safety nets and redistributing incomes more efficiently. …

Health spending per capita in England has more than doubled since 1997, yet relatively little is known about how that … spending is distributed across the population. This paper uses administrative National Health Service (NHS) hospital records to …

Most systems of health care financing in EU member states currently include elements of income redistribution. The …-compatible insurance contracts, for example through the introduction of copayment schemes. On the revenue side, income redistribution … carried out through wage-based insurance contributions. …

expenditures in education, health, and infrastructure on economic growth, poverty, and income distribution in the past 20 years …

I consider the popular argument of Medicaid crowding out demand for private long-term care insurance. I show that this … neglects a large value of the program in providing access to care. I show that private insurance is unable to offer a similar … value. I posit that the low take-up of private insurance is due to a dilemma prevalent in - but not exclusive to - the …

data from a large insurance company we find that overall, 43.9% of the people in our sample could be reintegrated …