and out-of-pocket) controlling for medical conditions, demographics, health, and insurance, separately by sex, education … not explained by differences in health, insurance status, or ability-to-pay, suggesting they arise due to discrimination …

policy could do more harm than good. Health Savings Accounts led by Republicans narrowly focuses on consumer incentives, and …

This paper studies redistributional effects of competition between private and public insurance on health insurance … markets based on the example of Germany. Health insurance is provided by a budget-balancing public insurance and a revenue …-maximizing private insurance; customers are characterized by health and income. Health insurance is obligatory. The public insurance …

Historically, children from wealthier families are more likely to have health insurance than children from poorer … families on average. However, the relationship between family income and health insurance is non-linear, as children near the … Federal Poverty Line (FPL) are less likely to be insured than children from both wealthier families (who obtain health …

uninsurance rate to a historic low. In this brief, we take a detailed look at changes in health insurance coverage among the … these coverage gains would result in millions of Americans, of all ages and backgrounds and in all states, losing health …

health expenditures in Turkey using a detailed micro-level survey, the Household Budget Survey during the period 2002 …-2011. The results show that those who have public health insurance are less likely to face out-of-pocket to capacity to pay and … catastrophic health expenditures, than those with private or without health insurance. In addition, the study explores the …

Cost-sharing is regarded as an important tool to combat moral hazard in health insurance. Contrary to standard …

Throughout the Truman administration's Fair Deal era, ideas for a national system of publicly financed universal health … care were developed, debated, and even proposed in Congress. In spite of public support for health care reform, each … legislative proposal that embodied these ideas failed, and the dream of truly universal health coverage has never been resurrected …

Over half of the U.S. population receives health insurance through an employer, with employer premium contributions … the labor market to explore how this uniquely American approach to financing health insurance contributes to labor market … inequality. We consider a partial-equilibrium counterfactual in which employer-provided health insurance is instead financed by a …

Over half of the U.S. population receives health insurance through an employer, with employer premium contributions … the labor market to explore how this uniquely American approach to financing health insurance contributes to labor market … inequality. We consider a partial-equilibrium counterfactual in which employer-provided health insurance is instead financed by a …