Equity in health has to be distinguished from equity in access to health care, or equity in the distribution of health … care resources. We take as a working definition of health for our purposes the number of quality adjusted life years that a … synonymous with reducing inequalities in health, we also consider the much richer variety of concepts employed by philosophers …

risk exposure and (c) a progressive scheme where mutual risk insurance spreads risk across all subjects such that low …

Quantity rationing is widely used by the traditional literature on public health care expenditure determination as a … means to justify the coexistence of the private health care sector. However, this artefact is not suitable for a wide range … of health care services that have an "all or nothing" characteristic. In this paper, we use another kind of rationing …

Most systems of health care financing in EU member states currently include elements of income redistribution. The …-compatible insurance contracts, for example through the introduction of copayment schemes. On the revenue side, income redistribution … carried out through wage-based insurance contributions. …

well. Thus, public and private provision of health care, made mutually consistent within a utility-based approach by the …

of the Welfare State. However, while these theories may be suited for explaining the development of public insurance or … transfers. At the other extreme, descriptions of social transfers as systems of extended insurance (behind the veil of ignorance … explained by pure efficiency motives, but less than what would be predicted under the extended insurance hypothesis. One …

discusses if a private health insurance subsidy policy can reduce the expenses covered by the public system. A theoretical model … calibration strategy employed reveals that selection is adverse in the Colombian voluntary health insurance market. Furthermore …Countries that seek to provide universal health coverage deal with considerable publicly funded expenses. This article …

A life care annuity is a bundled insurance product comprised of a life annuity and long-term care insurance. Some … address the pricing risk and solvency risk insurance companies face when providing life care annuities …