With a low Tax to GDP ratio of only 17%, despite allocating 10% of its revenues to healthcare, India will be unable to finance all of her healthcare needs from public expenditures. Therefore, the only way to ensure that all of her citizens get good healthcare, is for the Indian government to...

The theory of the second best implies that policymakers should address all relevant issues in a comprehensive manner to improve social welfare. Since most components in the economy are interconnected, a policy focusing narrowly on particular aspects of a broad issue often produces serious side...

The Sustainable Development Goal 3 targets aim to ensure that individuals achieve universal health coverage and that the capacity of countries, to identify early warnings, implement risk reduction plans and to respond and manage national and global health risks including emerging infectious...

OECD reports have become influential in Mexico. The “2016 OECD Review of Health Systems, Mexico” is analyzed in this note from an industrial perspective. Health reform has been debated in Mexico for decades. However, the map of suppliers and insurers, as well as of costs and rules of access...

In this essay, I explore how thinking about the ethics of health policy is distinct from thinking either about ethics or about health policy. This is because a policy that seems ethically optimal may be pragmatically untenable, while a pragmatically tenable policy may be ethically problematic....

Prescription Drugs: Monopolies and Profits -- Hospitals : Profit First -- Physicians -- Health Plans : The Money Middlemen -- European Systems of Health-Care Delivery -- The Affordable Care Act of 2010 and Other Federal Health-Care Laws -- Emergency Departments -- The Medical Implant Device...

Westernizing medicine -- Reacting to deteriorating health -- Improving people's health for war -- Reforming health care with the United States -- Achieving universal health insurance -- Consolidating universal health insurance -- Making universal health insurance survive -- Japanese health care...

We estimate the impacts of the introduction of National Health Insurance (NHI) in Taiwan in March 1995 on the health of infants. Prior to NHI, government workers (the control group) possessed health insurance policies with comprehensive coverage for births and infant medical care services....