Similar Search Results

Predicting recession probabilities with financial variables over multiple horizons

Fornari, Fabio; Lemke, Wolfgang - 2010

We forecast recession probabilities for the United States, Germany and Japan. The predictions are based on the widely … reached for the United States, the ProbVAR forecasts are slightly worse for Germany, but considerably inferior for Japan …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688529

The Productivity of Professions : Evidence from the Emergency Department

Chan, David C.; Chen, Yiqun - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

the productivity difference between physicians and nurse practitioners (NPs), two health care professions performing … and quasi-experimental variation in the patient probability of being treated by physicians versus NPs in the emergency … department, we find that, compared to physicians, NPs significantly increase resource utilization but achieve worse patient …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435170

Consumer resistance against regulation : the case of health care

Zweifel, Peter (contributor); Telser, Harry (contributor); … - 2005

Regulation fostering Managed Care alternatives in health insurance is spreading. This work reports on an experiment designed to measure the amounts of compensation asked by the Swiss population (in terms of reduced premiums) for Managed-Care type restrictions in the provision of health care. It...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002746136

U.S. Health Care Reform

Nedde, Ellen - 2006

High and rapidly rising health care costs in the United States and growing ranks of uninsured persons have brought health care reform to the top of the U.S. Administration`s policy agenda. This paper describes the health care financing system in the United States, highlights what are viewed as...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012781637

The US Health System : An Assessment and Prospective Directions for Reform

Docteur, Elizabeth - 2003

This paper assesses the performance of the United States health system in an international context and discusses potential directions for reform. The US health system is unique among OECD countries in its heavy reliance on the private sector for both financing and delivery of health care. The...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444199

From Market Competition to Solidarity? Assessing the Prospects of U.S. Health Care Reform Plans from a Human Rights Perspective

Rudiger, Anja - 2015

Although the crisis of health care in the United States is widely acknowledged – marked by poor health outcomes, high costs, unequal access, and widening health inequities – its structural underpinnings have not been adequately addressed, and reformers have settled on promoting piecemeal...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014174173

Why the Affordable Care Act, as Construed by the U.S. Supreme Court, Will Fail

Lambert, Thomas A. - 2012

Proponents of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) set forth two primary goals: (1) to constrain health care costs and (2) to expand health insurance coverage. In its June 28, 2012 decision upholding the constitutionality of the ACA, the U.S. Supreme Court effectively...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014165058

How do low-income enrollees in the Affordable Care Act marketplaces respond to cost-sharing?

Lavetti, Kurt; DeLeire, Thomas C.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2019

The ACA requires insurers to provide cost-sharing reductions (CSRs) to low-income consumers on the marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy-driven differences in the value of CSRs that are solely...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130268

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action : hypothetical choices and real decisions in Medicare Part D

Kesternich, Iris; Heiss, Florian; McFadden, Daniel; … - 2012

In recent years, consumer choice has become an important element of public policy. One reason is that consumers differ in their tastes and needs, which they can express most easily through their own choices. Elements that strengthen consumer choice feature prominently in the design of public...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009656193

Risk Adjustment Systems in Health Insurance Markets in the US, Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland

Schneider, Udo; Ulrich, Volker; Wille, Eberhard - In: CESifo DICE Report 06 (2008) 3, pp. 37-49

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011696649

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last