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The financial health of select Philippine hospitals and the role of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation as the national strategic purchaser of health services
Uy, Jhanna; Nuevo, Christian Edward L.; Casas, Lyle; … - 2021
, we (1) described the financial health of select public and private hospitals in the Philippines, and (2) examined …
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Efficiency and effectiveness of earmarking for public health in the Philippines
Kimwell, Miharu Jay; Ngo, Frances Lois; Puyat, Vicente … - 2022
The Sin Tax Reform Act (STRA) of 2012 (RA 10351) and its amendments paved the way to revisit excise taxation for sin products, such as tobacco, alcohol, heated tobacco products and vapor products, and sweetened beverages. The ad valorem tax system reform has a two-fold aim: (1) increase revenues...
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The Prices in the Crises : What We Are Learning from Twenty Years of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Das, Jishnu; Đỗ-Quý-Toàn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax-funded, subsidized provision of health care through publicly operated facilities. This paper discusses two rationales for this transition. First, health insurance would boost...
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Lessons for Health Care Policy in the United States : Comparing Health Care Systems
Aspalter, Christian - 2012
This paper compares health care systems. It looks beyond normal academic, political, or journalistic rhetoric, by exactly sticking to facts, i.e. empirical data (in particular data provided by the WHO) and comprehensive case study analyses. The paper finds that a number of myths and common...
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Social Health Insurance as a Complementary Financing Mechanism for Universal Health Coverage in India
Kalita, Anuska - 2015
The paper explores the role that Social Health Insurance (SHI), as an organisational mechanism for raising and pooling additional funds, can play in financing health services in India. It formulates an SHI concept and its aims for India and examines case studies of different countries that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022621
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Optimal Copayment Strategies in a Public Health Care System
Levaggi, Laura; Levaggi, Rosella - 2005
Health care usually represents a so called merit good, i.e. a good whose consumption should be promoted and given that in most cases it might be essential to restore health or to stop its decay, most countries have implemented a public health care system where care is supplied to anybody needing...
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Financing universal health care in an ageing Philippines
Abrigo, Michael Ralph M. - 2019
The Philippines has been experiencing unprecedented economic growth in recent years. This has fueled greater … education. Behind these developments, however, is the fact that the country is slowly ageing. The Philippines' demographic … window of opportunity is closing soon. In this study, we show how an ageing Philippines may impact the magnitude and …
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Monitoring for Waste : Evidence from Medicare Audits
Shi, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper examines the tradeoffs of monitoring for wasteful public spending. By penalizing unnecessary spending, monitoring improves the quality of public expenditure and incentivizes firms to invest in compliance technology. I study a large Medicare program that monitored for unnecessary...
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Sağlıkta Dönüşümün Ampirik Analizi
Celikay, Ferdi; Gumus, Erdal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The efficiency of Turkish health system, which was restructured by the health transformation framework, depends on the mutual compliance of both health service providers and demanders. The future and success of the new health system may be determined by solving problems that were generated from...
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The Grass is Not Always Greener : A Look at National Health Care Systems around the World
Tanner, Michael - 2013
Critics of the U.S. health care system frequently point to other countries as models for reform. They point out that many countries spend far less on health care than the United States yet seem to enjoy better health outcomes. The United States should follow the lead of those countries, the...
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