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

Abstract Aim/purpose - The aim of this study was to estimate the effect of health insurance on Out-of-Pocket (OOP …) health care expenditure in Kenya. It is informed by persistence in the challenges of access and utilization of quality and … affordable health care services. Previously, researchers have estimated the effects of different forms of health care financing …

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 studies redistributional effects of competition between private and public insurance on health insurance … markets based on the example of Germany. Health insurance is provided by a budget-balancing public insurance and a revenue …-maximizing private insurance; customers are characterized by health and income. Health insurance is obligatory. The public insurance …

health expenditures in Turkey using a detailed micro-level survey, the Household Budget Survey during the period 2002 …-2011. The results show that those who have public health insurance are less likely to face out-of-pocket to capacity to pay and … catastrophic health expenditures, than those with private or without health insurance. In addition, the study explores the …

This paper analyzes the determinants of health insurance enrollment and health expenditure in Ghana using micro data … availability of health facilities in one's own community, neither of which has been emphasized in the previous literature on this … topic. It is possible to analyze the determinants of health insurance enrollment in Ghana because its public health …

"deadline effect" - a spike in spending in the final year of the program - among participants of the RAND Health Insurance …