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Effects of Private Health Insurance on Waiting Time in Public Hospitals

Yang, Ou; Yong, Jongsay; Zhang, Yuting - 2023

The Australian government pays $6.5 billion per year in rebates to encourage Australians to purchase private health insurance (PHI) and an additional $3 billion to cover private inpatient medical services. What is the justification for large government subsidies to a private industry when all...

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Patient versus provider incentives in long-term care

Hackmann, Martin B.; Pohl, R. Vincent; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2023

How do patient and provider incentives affect the provision of long-term care? Our analysis of 551 thousand nursing home stays yields three main insights. First, Medicaid-covered residents prolong their stays instead of transitioning to community-based care due to limited cost-sharing. Second,...

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Private health insurance in South Korea: An international comparison

Shin, Jaeun - In: Health Policy 108 (2012) 1, pp. 76-85

The goal of this study is to present the historical and policy background of the expansion of private health insurance in South Korea in the context of the National Health Insurance (NHI) system, and to provide empirical evidence on whether the increased role of private health insurance may...

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Identifying the effects of health insurance coverage on health care use when coverage is misreported and endogenous

Le, Huong Thu; Blyth, Christopher; Connelly, Luke; … - 2024

The examination of the causal impact of health insurance coverage on healthcare utilisation is a critical endeavour in both academic research and policy formulation. However, this endeavour faces challenges, notably the endogenous selection into coverage and prevalent misreporting of coverage...

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Age Penalties and Take-up of Private Health Insurance

Kettlewell, Nathan; Zhang, Yuting - 2021

Penalty mandates are used in many countries to encourage people to purchase health insurance. But are they effective? We use a large administrative dataset for a 10% random sample of all Australian tax-filers to study how people respond to a step-wise age-based mandate, and whether this has...

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Financial Incentives and Private Health Insurance Demand on the Extensive and Intensive Margins

Kettlewell, Nathan; Zhang, Yuting - 2023

health insurance through subsidies and penalty. We use administrative data from Australia to study how high-income earners …

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From Bushfires to COVID-19 : Forewarning Indicators of Coronavirus Pandemic in Australia

Bosupeng, Mpho - 2021

The purpose of this study is to determine the leading indicators of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia using daily data … predict a financial crisis to examine 30 COVID-19 indicators in Australia. The results show that the best indicator of the … current pandemic in Australia is the number of new tests. Other significant variables that are important for monitoring the …

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Identifying the effects of health insurance coverage on health care use when coverage is misreported and endogenous

Ha Trong Nguyen; Le, Huong Thu; Blyth, Christopher; … - 2024

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The impact of value-based payment reform on medical expenditures, fees and volume of services. Early evidence from a large-scale fee schedule reform in Australia

Jun, Dajung; Scott, Anthony - 2022

Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL) panel survey and consented to have their MABEL data linked to MBS …

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Examining the Efficacy of Canadian Healthcare Governance in an Indigenous Context

Gao, Edward - 2023

By comparing funding and expenditure data, Indigenous healthcare access data, and Indigenous healthcare outcomes data between provinces/territories, this study aimed to closely examine how different models and approaches of healthcare governance influence health outcomes. Each of the ten...

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