I review the key issues that arise in financing health care delivery. I begin by documenting the key features of health … care markets that make financing so central in this sector, such as the skewed and unpredictable nature of health care … spending and market failures in health care delivery. I then review the key issues that public and private payers face in …

A strong association between lower socioeconomic status (SES) and worse health-- the SES-health gradient-- has been … income gradient in self-reported health in the US and Canada. We find that being below median income raises the likelihood … that a middle aged person is in poor or fair health by about 15 percentage points in the U.S., compared to less than 8 …

Abstract We study inequality in the distribution of self-assessed health (SAH) in the United States and China, two … in other social determinants of health. Using comparable health survey data from China and the United States, we compare … health inequality trends throughout the period covering the public health insurance coverage expansions in the two countries …

We study inequality in the distribution of self-assessed health (SAH) in the United States and China, two large … social determinants of health. Using comparable health survey data from China and the United States, we compare health … inequality trends throughout the period covering the public health insurance coverage expansions in the two countries. We find …

We study inequality in the distribution of self-assessed health (SAH) in the United States and China, two large … social determinants of health. Using comparable health survey data from China and the United States, we compare health … inequality trends throughout the period covering the public health insurance coverage expansions in the two countries. We find …

primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …