household income, socio-demographic factors, and private health insurance factors in both Japan and the USA. Using these two … rises, households have a positive effect on purchasing health insurance as a normal good. Another similarity between the two … pure health issuance characteristics, an increase in premium of health insurance policies cause individuals to substitute …

Virtual health is the sum of telehealth (patient–provider communication at a distance) and autonomous health … distancing led to a sharp increase in the use of virtual health. In this paper, we ask which public policies would encourage the … continued use and expansion of virtual health. We find that the answers lie in the three Rs: regulations to support easier …

The creation of tax-free health savings accounts presents a new opportunity to reduce the distortions created by … federal tax preferences for health-related expenditures, and ultimately help eliminate those distortions. This paper proposes … health benefits as a tax-free cash contribution into the worker's health savings account. Restructuring the exclusion for …

-analysis results of surgery outcomes for our effectiveness inputs. We find that surgery treatment is in general cost-effective for …

, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …

and informal care following wealth loss, involuntary job displacement, spousal death, and health shocks in retirement … and reduce them with the onset of disability or poor health. We find that upstream transfers are also responsive to life …