concentrated around whether the high morbidity in Kerala was real perceived, given the high literacy, better health care … infrastructure and higher utilization of health care services. Though Kerala has achieved revolutionary progress in the health care … better health care development; on the other hand, it outstrips all other Indian states in terms of morbidity in terms of …

. A recent decision by United Parcel Service to eliminate health benefits for spouses who were eligible for coverage … through their own employer may be a tipping point in employment-based health benefits, in part due to provisions in the … equal, do spouses use more health services and cost more to cover? This report conducts a novel analysis that addresses this …

The creation of tax-free health savings accounts presents a new opportunity to reduce the distortions created by … federal tax preferences for health-related expenditures, and ultimately help eliminate those distortions. This paper proposes … health benefits as a tax-free cash contribution into the worker's health savings account. Restructuring the exclusion for …

behavior, and patient health. Every dollar Medicare spent on monitoring generated $24-29 in government savings. The majority of … the health of the marginal patient is harmed, indicating that monitoring primarily deters low-value care. Monitoring does …

This study examines the relationship between pharmaceutical R&D and health care expenditures, distinguishing between …

Germany’s healthcare system is praised as one of the best in the world. In this article, we review Germany’s health … system by critically analysing its structure, funding, resource allocation, provider payments, efficiency, health outcomes …, and access. Whilst health provision and access are comparably high, signs of technical inefficiencies exist. Although …

also creates worse health outcomes for patients since studies show unfounded misperceptions have negative physical …