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Healthcare spending inequality : evidence from Hungarian administrative data

Bíró, Anikó; Prinz, Daniel - 2019

Using administrative data on incomes and healthcare spending, we develop new evidence on the distribution of healthcare spending in Hungary. We document substantial geographic heterogeneity and a positive association between income and public healthcare spending.

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Progressive Universalism? The Impact of Targeted Coverage on Healthcare Access and Expenditures in Peru

Neelsen, Sven - 2016

Like other countries seeking a progressive path to universalism, Peru has attempted to reduce inequalities in access to healthcare by granting the poor entitlement to tax-financed basic care without charge. We identify the impact of this policy by comparing the target population's change in...

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Healthcare Spending Decelerating? Not so Fast!

Robson, William B. P. - 2016

Revised estimates for 2014 healthcare spending growth show increases larger than initially reported – which continues a worrisome trend, says a new C.D. Howe Institute report. In “Healthcare Spending Decelerating? Not so Fast!,” author William B.P. Robson warns that initial estimates based...

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Healthcare for an Aging Population : Prince Edward Island's $14 Billion Healthcare Glacier

Busby, Colin; Robson, William B. P. - 2013

“In 2007–2008, comparable health care expenditures stood at $425 Million. Since then, these costs have grown 7 per cent annually… [S]tatus quo growth of 7 percent per year in health care spending is simply not an option. The more we spend on health, the less we are able to address the...

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Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population : How Manitoba Can Confront Its Healthcare Glacier

Robson, William B. P.; Busby, Colin; Jacobs, Aaron - 2014

Manitobans carry a $91 billion fiscal burden – the higher tax bill for increased healthcare costs over the next half-century – and should prepare now for the coming demographic squeeze, says a report released today from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Managing Healthcare for an Aging...

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Evolution of Public Expenditure on High Cost Medicines in the Brazilian Health System

Acurcio, Francisco A.; Andrade, Eli Iola G.; … - 2014

Rationale: Brazil's healthcare system - the Unified Health System (SUS) offers free and universal access to health to all citizens. High complexity procedures are also available to the population, but the growth of public expenditure with them may represent a threat to the sustaintability of the...

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Health Care Expenses in Retirement and the Use of Health Savings Accounts

Fronstin, Paul; Salisbury, Dallas - 2004

The new Medicare drug law that was enacted in late 2003 makes two changes that supporters of the law say should make it easier for today's workers to prepare to pay the medical bills they will confront in retirement: prescription drug benefits (the new Medicare Part D) and health savings...

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Public Expenditure Determination in a Mixed Market for Health Care

Fossati, Amedeo; Levaggi, Rosella - 2004

Quantity rationing is widely used by the traditional literature on public health care expenditure determination as a means to justify the coexistence of the private health care sector. However, this artefact is not suitable for a wide range of health care services that have an "all or nothing"...

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A Comparison of the USA Health Care Effort with Other OECD Countries

Gracia, Eduard; Gil, Joan - 2003

We use a sample of OECD countries in order to better understand why the US health care expenditure as a percentage of its Gross Domestic Product ("health care effort") is so far above any other. To this end we employ a descriptive cross-country methodology based partially on econometric...

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Does population sorting through internal migration increase healthcare costs and needs in peripheral regions?

Kulshreshtha, Shobhit; Salm, Martin; Wübker, Ansgar - 2022

In vielen Ländern gibt es große regionale Unterschiede bei der Gesundheit und den Gesundheitskosten, aber unser … Bevölkerungszusammensetzung durch Binnenmigration einen erheblichen Anteil, etwa 28 %, der regionalen Unterschiede bei den Gesundheitskosten … erklären kann. Die Binnenmigration im Zeitraum 1998-2018 erhöht die durchschnittlichen Gesundheitskosten in peripheren …

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