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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 fiscal revenues for health care, as post-treatment out-of-pocket payments to providers …
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policy could do more harm than good. Health Savings Accounts led by Republicans narrowly focuses on consumer incentives, and …
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We estimate the health costs of supply-side barriers to accessing medical care. The setting is Colombia, where citizens … have a constitutional right to health care, but insurance companies that manage delivery impose restrictions on access. We … use administrative data on judicial claims for health as a proxy for unmet demand. We validate this using the register …
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This paper compares health care systems. It looks beyond normal academic, political, or journalistic rhetoric, by …. The paper finds that a number of myths and common believes in health care policy are not supported by emprical evidence …. Global health care policy, as well as health care policy in United States, needs to look at statistical data and profound …
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overlapping generations economy in which individuals purchase health care to lower mortality. We consider three sectors: final …We study the impact of health insurance expansion in the US on health expenditure, longevity growth and welfare in an … goods production; a health care sector, selling medical services to individuals; and an R&D sector, selling increasingly …
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We exploit an age discontinuity in a Dutch disability insurance (DI) reform to identify the health impact of stricter … and mortality. A €1,000 reduction in annual benefits leads to a rise of 4.2 percentage points in the probability of being … the hospitalization of men subject to stricter rules but their mortality rate is reduced by 1.2 percentage points. The …
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We exploit an age discontinuity in a Dutch disability insurance (DI) reform to identify the health impact of stricter … and mortality. A €1,000 reduction in annual benefits leads to a rise of 4.2 percentage points in the probability of being … the hospitalization of men subject to stricter rules but their mortality rate is reduced by 1.2 percentage points. The …
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methods to provide both central estimates and bounds on the effect of health insurance on health and mortality among the near … average effect of uninsurance on mortality and health is plausible, some selection effects that might explain our full results …We use the best available longitudinal dataset, the Health and Retirement Survey, and a battery of causal inference …
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Health insurance market in India has become the fastest growing segment in non–life insurance sector in India. The … health insurance business in India saw a 24% growth in FY 17 with a premium of INR 30,765 Cr and a market share of 24%. It … has been the fastest growing market segment registering a CAGR of 23% for the past 10 years. Health insurance industry is …
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‐based administrative data. Using an instrumental variable approach to identify the causal effects of health insurance on infant health, we …
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