the total healthcare expenditure while increasing efficiency and prevent problems inherent to health insurance, e.g. moral …

Throughout the Truman administration's Fair Deal era, ideas for a national system of publicly financed universal health … care were developed, debated, and even proposed in Congress. In spite of public support for health care reform, each … legislative proposal that embodied these ideas failed, and the dream of truly universal health coverage has never been resurrected …

policy could do more harm than good. Health Savings Accounts led by Republicans narrowly focuses on consumer incentives, and …

and out-of-pocket) controlling for medical conditions, demographics, health, and insurance, separately by sex, education … not explained by differences in health, insurance status, or ability-to-pay, suggesting they arise due to discrimination …

This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as … provided at family health centers, which operate on a walk-in basis and are located within the neighborhoods in close proximity … health. …

People in Canada and the U.S. often make claims regarding whose country has a better health system. Several researchers … have attempted to address this question by analysing subjective health in the two countries, thus assuming a common … definition of “good” health. Using data from the Joint Canada/U.S. Survey of Health, I generate quasi-objective health indices …

The present paper outlines measures of disparity in healthcare access and health outcomes, drawing from the … variables of the health system might wield more influence over health and health care disparities than the overarching features … defining our health system taxonomy. Finally, it will be analyzed how differences in healthcare use and health outcomes within …

Improving maternal and child health outcomes is a major development objective. Targets related to these outcomes were … Sustainable Development Goals (under Goal 3 health targets). Turkey is among the few successful middle-income countries that have … significantly reduced the under-5 mortality rate below the MDG 2015 target levels. This study analyses improved demand-side (health …

To test for ethnic discrimination in access to outpatient health care services, we carry out an email …