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Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax-funded, subsidized provision of health care through publicly operated facilities. This paper discusses two rationales for this transition. First, health insurance would boost...
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additional funds, can play in financing health services in India. It formulates an SHI concept and its aims for India and … they offer for India and suggests a suitable design for India. It then estimates the volumes of tax revenues and payroll … contributions that may be obtainable by India through SHI. Towards the end it also outlines some of the important design elements …
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Like other countries seeking a progressive path to universalism, Peru has attempted to reduce inequalities in access to healthcare by granting the poor entitlement to tax-financed basic care without charge. We identify the impact of this policy by comparing the target populationś change in...
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Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax-funded, subsidized provision of health care through publicly operated facilities. This paper discusses two rationales for this transition. First, health insurance would boost...
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The Affordable Care Act requires insurers to offer cost sharing reductions (CSRs) to low-income consumers on the Marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy-driven differences in the actuarial value of CSR...
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A relatively small but influential economics literature is devoted to financial abuse in Medicare.Much of that literature focuses on upcoding/no upcoding for inpatient hospital care inMedicare Part A, where reimbursements requested are greater/the same as justified by the cost of care provided....
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With increasing burden of chronic diseases in India and the consequent increase in private expenditure on health care …
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Gesundheitswesen diskutiert. In diesem Papier wird argumentiert, dass er diese Funktion möglicherweise nicht erfüllt, wenn die …
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