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This paper evaluates a Filipino policy that expanded health insurance coverage of its senior citizens, aged 60 and … insurance coverage by approximately 16 percentage points. We show that the compliers, those induced by the policy to obtain … insurance, are disproportionately female and largely from the middle of the socioeconomic distribution. Instrumental variables …
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Cost-sharing is regarded as an important tool to reduce moral hazard in health insurance. Contrary to standard … implications of different insurance designs. I find cost-sharing never to be an optimal solution as it produces two novel …
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This paper evaluates a Filipino policy that expanded health insurance coverage of its senior citizens, aged 60 and … insurance coverage by approximately 16 percentage points. We show that the compliers, those induced by the policy to obtain … insurance, are disproportionately female and largely from the middle of the socioeconomic distribution. Instrumental variables …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146645
is rather based on a limitation of a treatment’s payment from public health insurance which, however, does not fit the … to limit the constitutional right to healthcare covered by public health insurance in the Czech Republic and shows these … possibilities which are based on provisions of the Act No. 48/1997 Sb., on public health insurance. More widely it questions whether …
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ACA by facilitating a new public insurance product, a “public option," and reveals that only one bill actually calls for … one comprehensive, single-payer, government-provided public insurance program. The paper then exposes the distance between …
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Fair competition law and public health law talk past each other when discussing pharmaceutical pricing and distribution. The former cannot agree on the relevant definition of consumer welfare. The latter does not fully comprehend the highly complex but inherently collective nature of...
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Native American women have suffered years of systematic injustice; the most tyrannical act in modern times may arguably be eugenics' practice through forced sterilization. Despite recent feminist movements and reproductive health reform, Native American women are missing from the conversation. The...
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, SNAP (food stamps), tax credits, and unemployment insurance to meet the surge in need. At this early stage of the crisis …
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Law and ethics are both essential attributes of a high-functioning health care system and powerful explainers of why the existing system is so difficult to improve. U.S. health law is not seamless; rather, it derives from multiple sources and is based on various theories that may be in tension...
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