The authors analyze the effect of unintended consequences and unconscious gender-based bias on attempts at health policy reform in the United States. Recent reforms in national health policy that would seem to address issues particularly relevant to women have been more symbolic than substantive...

Entsprechend der Themenfrage wird zunächst untersucht, wie sich Gemeinwohl und Wettbewerb als Ziele in einer privaten und gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung operationalisieren lassen. Nach der Darstellung einer ordnungspolitischen Reform der nKrankenversorgung erfolgt eine Einbettung der Thematik...

Entsprechend der Themenfrage wird zunächst untersucht, wie sich Gemeinwohl und Wettbewerb als Ziele in einer privaten und gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung operationalisieren lassen. Nach der Darstellung einer ordnungspolitischen Reform der nKrankenversorgung erfolgt eine Einbettung der Thematik...

Because employers select the health plans they offer to their employees, this paper examined the dissemination of mental health care quality measures to 325 employers interested in improving depression treatment to determine their knowledge of HEDIS scores for depression. Only 7% of employers...

WHO estimates that as many as 1 in 6 individuals of reproductive age worldwide are affected by infertility. This paper uses rich administrative population-wide data from Sweden to construct and characterize the universe of infertility treatments, and to then quantify the private costs of...

Enrollment in one public benefit program often affects enrollment in others. We study life-course spillovers by examining how access to publicly subsidized health insurance prior to age 65 affects public benefit choices at the age of Medicare eligibility. We use administrative data to examine...