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Crisis on Campus : Student Access to Health Care

Liang, Bryan A. - 2009

substantially off of these student plans, raising the concern that there is a conflict of interest associated with school …-sponsored plans that may be focused on benefits to the school rather than the student. In addition, these plans may violate public … student mandate, such as in Massachusetts, although successful in increasing the number of students with health insurance …

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Health values, preference inconsistency, and insurance demand

Wrede, Matthias - 2005

Several empirical studies provide evidence that their actual health state affects people's attitudes towards health and medical care in hypothetical health states. In the tradition of behavioural economics this paper considers the actual health state as a point of reference and builds a model...

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Happiness and health care coverage

Blanchflower, David G. - 2009

In this paper I examine the characteristics of adults who report on whether they have health care coverage and of people who say that they are unable to see a doctor over the preceding year because of the cost. I make use of a unique data set, the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, a...

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The dependence of health insurance availability on years left before Medicare

Bayindir, Esra Eren; Gurdal, Mehmet Yigit; Sağlam, Ismail - 2011

We study the dependence of health insurance availability of near-elderly inpatients in the United States with respect to their ages. We show that the likelihood that near-elderly inpatients are uninsured continuously declines until the early ages of 60 but the trend is reversed for the last few...

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Trade in healthcare and health insurance services: The GATS as a supporting actor (?)

Adlung, Rudolf - 2009

The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is broader in policy coverage than conventional trade agreements for goods and, at the same time, offers governments more flexibility, in various dimensions, to tailor their obligations to sector- or country-specific needs. An overview of...

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Effect of type of insurance and income on waiting time for outpatient care

Roll, Kathrin; Stargardt, Tom; Schreyögg, Jonas - 2011

This paper analyzes the impact of type of insurance, income, and reason for appointment on waiting time for an appointment and waiting time in the physician's practice in the outpatient sector. Data were obtained from a German patient survey conducted between 2007 and 2009. We differentiated...

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Incentive compatible reimbursement schemes for physicians

Emons, Winand - 2010

We consider physicians with fixed capacity levels. If a physician's capacity exceeds demand, she may have an incentive to overtreat, i.e., she may provide unnecessary treatments to use up idle capacity. By contrast, with excess demand she may undertreat, i.e., she may not provide necessary...

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When Health Care Insurance does not make a Difference – The Case of Health Care ‘Made in China’

van Dalen, Hendrik P. - 2006

Does medical insurance affect health care demand and in the end contribute to improvements in the health status? Evidence for China for the year 2004, by means of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), shows that health insurance does not affect health care demand in a significant manner....

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Universal Coverage on a Budget: Impacts on Health Care Utilization and Out-Of-Pocket Expenditures in Thailand

Limwattananon, Supon; Neelsen, Sven; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2013

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...

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Does uninsurance affect the health outcomes of the insured? Evidence from heart attack patients in California

Daysal, N. Meltem - 2012

In this paper, I examine the impact of uninsured patients on the health of the insured, focusing on one health outcome - the in-hospital mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I employ panel data models using patient discharge and hospital financial data from California (1999-2006). My...

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