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The Drivers of Public Health Spending : Integrating Policies and Institutions

de la Maisonneuve, Christine - 2016

This paper investigates the impact of policies and institutions on health expenditures for a large panel of OECD countries for the period 2000-10. We use a set of 20 policy and institutional indicators developed by the OECD characterising the main supply-side, demand-side, and public management,...

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The Effect of Government Control Over Health Care Expenditures on Health Care System Efficiency in the U.S. and Other OECD Countries, 1972-2009

Deppen, Ray - 2015

This paper focuses on the question: Does public or private control of health care lead to greater healthcare system efficiency? The data analysis demonstrates a curvilinear relationship between government control over health care and health care system inefficiency and that, as a result, a...

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Health Care Reform or More Affordable Health Care?

B. P. Gomes, Diego - 2018

This article investigates the impact on the U.S. economy of making health care more affordable. We compare health care cost reductions with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) using a rich life cycle general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents. We evaluate a wide range...

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Healthcare Spending : The Role of Healthcare Institutions from an International Perspective

Titeca, Hannes - 2016

Healthcare systems differ greatly across the world, however, it appears that the extent of public insurance (publicly/government funded healthcare) is the only institutional characteristic that plays a significant role in accounting for the large disparities in total healthcare spending. Other...

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Cost-Sharing Reductions, Technocrat Tinkering, and Market-Based Health Policy

Hoffman, Allison K. - 2020

The Trump Administration has exposed both the durability and vulnerability of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s insurance reforms. One of the Administration’s first strikes at “Obamacare” was to discontinue federal government payment of cost-sharing reductions, which...

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A Piggy Back for Healthcare : Why the Health System Needs Old-age Reserve Funds

Niemietz, Kristian Peter - 2021

Healthcare spending as a proportion of GDP has almost doubled since 1990, from just over 5% to almost 10% now. Healthcare costs rise exponentially in old age. Healthcare costs per capita are relatively stable during the first five decades of life, but they quadruple over the next four decades....

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The Henry Fords of Healthcare

Sanandaji, Nima - 2021

Health systems in Western countries are plagued by inefficiency and will likely require a substantial increase in the tax burden as populations age. Patients might also face a gradual decrease in the quality and scope of services. The organisational changes needed to drive costs down and...

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The effect of universal health care on the out-of-pocket health expenditures : evidence from a natural experiment

Asali, Muhammad; Pantsulaia, Valida - 2022

In the first two quarters of 2013 the Georgian government introduced and fully implemented a universal health care (UHC) plan covering all those not-yet publicly or privately insured. We estimate the effect of the introduction of the universal healthcare plan on the level of out-of-pocket (OOP)...

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Health financing and budgeting practices : key findings from the Asia, Oceania, and Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European regions

Ruiz, Ana Maria; Farran, Kholood; Socha-Dietrich, Karolina - In: OECD journal on budgeting 19 (2019) 3, pp. 95-121

This article presents the findings of the OECD Survey of Senior Budget Officials on Budgeting Practices from a 2017 … to analyse and benchmark good practices in health budgeting. The results of the survey point to an increasing use of … budgeting tools from developed countries and support continued engagement to improve budget activities and to meet future …

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Optimal contracting with altruistic agents : a structural model of Medicare payments for dialysis drugs

Gaynor, Martin; Mehta, Nirav; Richards-Shubik, Seth - 2020

We study physician agency and optimal payment policy in the context of an expensive medication used in dialysis care. Using Medicare claims data we estimate a structural model of treatment decisions, in which physicians differ in their altruism and marginal costs, and this heterogeneity is...

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