We investigate the impact of hospital system membership on negotiations between hospitals and managed care organizations (MCOs). Previous research finds that system hospitals secure higher reimbursements by exploiting local market concentration. By leveraging system membership in the bargaining...

This paper examines the implicit health insurance that households receive from the ability to declare bankruptcy. Exploiting multiple sources of variation in asset exemption law, I show that uninsured households with a greater financial cost of bankruptcy make higher out-of-pocket medical...

We employed the Gini method to investigate the effect of microinsurance on asset inequality among households in Ghana. The findings indicate that the asset inequality of insured households is less than that of uninsured households. Also, insured female-headed households have much lower asset...

Subsidized health insurance is a public policy aimed at improving access to health care of the poor in Colombia. To evaluate the impact of this policy in Medellín, we use the 2008 Quality of Life Survey and, with the propensity score matching technique, we find a comparison group similar to the...

U ovome radu analizira se uloga javnoga zdravstva u europskim zemljama s posebnim naglaskom na financijske aspekte. Uloga države u zdravstvenome sustavu opisana je u strateškim dokumentima: Nacionalnoj strategiji razvoja zdravstva 2012 .- 2020. i Health 2020 - novom okviru zdravstvene politike...

During an economic downturn the non-productive sectors (education, health, and social services) are the most exposed to sudden policy changes, as a result of austerity measures. This article aims to assess the impact of the late 2000’s crisis on some European countries’ healthcare systems in...

Governments around the world are reforming their social security systems in light of the challenges posed by population aging. We study the 1993 Australian Age Pension reform, which progressively increased the eligibility age for women from 60 to 65 years. We find economically significant...

Long-term care expenditures constitute one of the largest uninsured financial risks facing the elderly in the United States and thus play a central role in determining the retirement security of elderly Americans. In this essay, we begin by providing some background on the nature and extent of...

Este trabajo analiza los costes de los cuidados de larga duración (CLD) ligados a los individuos en situación de dependencia. El coste económico unitario de los servicios de cuidados de larga duración está relacionado con el tiempo esperado de necesidad de la atención y la intensidad de...

This paper exploits a sharp reduction in patient cost sharing at age 70 in Japan, using a regression discontinuity design to examine its effect on utilization, health, and financial risk arising from out-of-pocket expenditures. Due to the national policy, cost sharing is 60–80 percent lower at...