The New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) program was implemented in response to illness-led poverty and poor state of healthcare in rural China. Supported by government subsidy, more and more poor rural households are now enrolled in the NCMS. This paper investigates the impact of the NCMS...

We estimate the impact on health care utilization and out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures of a major reform in Thailand that extended health insurance to one-quarter of the population to achieve universal coverage while keeping health spending below 4% of GDP. Identification is through comparison...

Seit Sommer dieses Jahres sind die Eckpunkte der Gesundheitsreform 2006 bekannt. Für Markus Lüngen, Andreas Gerber, Universität zu Köln, und Karl W. Lauterbach, MdB, ist das Modell des Gesundheitsfonds, das im Mittelpunkt der Maßnahmen steht, kein »Erfolgsmodell«. Die möglichen positiven...

In the absence of a perfect risk adjustment scheme, reimbursing health insurers' costs can reduce risk selection in community-rated health insurance markets. In this paper, we develop a model in which insurers determine the cost efficiency of health care and have incentives for risk selection....