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Large Health Savings Accounts : A Step Toward Tax Neutrality for Health Care

Cannon, Michael F. - 2007

The creation of tax-free health savings accounts presents a new opportunity to reduce the distortions created by federal tax preferences for health-related expenditures, and ultimately help eliminate those distortions. This paper proposes changes to current law that would allow most workers to...

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Health Savings Accounts and Other Account-Based Health Plans

Fronstin, Paul - 2004

This paper examines accounts that can be used to pay for health care services on a tax-favored basis. Starting with health savings accounts (HSAs), the function of these accounts is described, followed by a discussion of issues related to the accounts, whether expectations for the accounts will...

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Chapter 31 Health care and the public sector

Cutler, David M. - In: Handbook of public economics : volume 4, (pp. 2143-2243). 2002

This chapter summarizes the many aspects of public policy for health care. I first consider government policy affecting individual behaviors. Government intervention to change individual actions such as smoking and drinking is frequently justified on externality grounds. External costs of...

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Impact of time of diagnosis on out-of-pocket costs of cancer treatment, a side effect of health insurance design in Australia

Naghsh Nejad, Maryam; Van Gool, Kees - 2024

The Extended Medicare Safety Net (EMSN) in Australia was designed to provide financial assistance to patients with high out-of-pocket (OOP) costs for medical treatment. The EMSN works on a calendar year basis. Once a patient incurs a specified amount of OOP costs, the EMSN provides additional...

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The impact of the health insurance market on small firm employment

Kapur, Kanika - In: The journal of risk and insurance : the journal of the … 71 (2004) 1, pp. 63-90

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Essays on health economics

Lim, Wilfredo - 2012

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Employee Health and Employer Incentives

Hullegie, Patrick - 2015

reforms that were implemented in the Netherlands have helped or hindered employment opportunities of workers with health … employer incentives may stimulate preventive and reintegration activities by firms, thereby improving the employment … may therefore reduce employment opportunities of disabled workers. We use data from the Dutch Labor Force Survey and rich …

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Employee Health and Employer Incentives

Hullegie, Patrick - 2015

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Working beyond the normal retirement age in urban China and urban Russia

Gustafsson, Björn; Nivorozhkina, L. I.; Wan, Haiyuan - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 12 (2021) 1, pp. 1-21

increasing employment among healthy people under 70. …

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Social Interactions and the Health Insurance Choices of the Elderly : Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Beiseitov, Eldar; Kubik, Jeffrey D.; Moran, John R. - 2011

Using data from the 1998 Wave of the Health and Retirement Study, we examine the effect of social interactions on the health insurance choices of the elderly. We find that having more social interactions, as measured by contacts with friends and neighbors, reduces the likelihood of enrolling in...

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