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Medical care within an OLG economy with realistic demography
Frankovic, Ivan; Kuhn, Michael; Wrzaczek, Stefan - 2016
We study the role of health care within a continuous time economy of overlapping generations subject to endogenous mortality. The economy consists of two sectors: final goods production and a health care sector, selling medical services to individuals. Individuals demand health care with a view...
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Public Expenditure Reform : The Health Care Sector in the United Kingdom
Koen, Vincent - 2000
Health services are largely tax-financed in the United Kingdom and account for 14 per cent of general government spending. This paper analyses how the National Health Service (NHS) has been dealing with the associated expenditure pressures in the pre-1990 set-up and during the “quasi-market”...
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The health of nations : a transatlantic trade and investment agenda for better healthcare
Erixon, Fredrik; Ferracane, Martina F.; Van der Marel, Erik - 2015
Today, increases in the demand for healthcare are driving European governments to look for ways to control growth in healthcare expenditures and at the same time improve health outcomes. Consideration of ways to enhance trade in healthcare goods and services is important for governments as they...
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Improving the Czech health care system
Fall, Falilou; Glocker, Daniela - 2018
The Czech health care system is doing well in terms of health outcomes compared to other Central East European economies that inherited similar health systems after the transition and has been converging to OECD averages. However, benchmarking the Czech health system to countries with comparable...
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France : improving the efficiency of the health-care system
Goujard, Antoine - 2018
France’s health-care system offers high-quality care. Average health outcomes are good, public satisfaction with the health-care system is high, and average household out-of-pocket expenditures are low. As in other OECD countries, technology is expanding possibilities for life extension and...
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Richard Epstein's Mortal Peril : Ebenezer Scrooge Meets the American Health Care System
Greely, Henry T. - 1999
Professor Henry Greely views Richard Epstein's Mortal Peril as a provocative, but ultimately failed work. It provokes with both its sharp analysis and its pointed language. Yet it fails in its goal of demonstrating the useful application of Epstein's first principles to the problems of access to...
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Improving the efficiency and outcomes of the Slovak health-care system
Giorno, Claude; Londáková, Kristina - 2017
Despite improvements over the past few decades, Slovak health outcomes remains poor compared with most other OECD countries, even after controlling for differences in per capita income and other social, cultural and lifestyle factors. Disparities in access to care and health outcomes between the...
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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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Quality of Health Care After Adopting a Full-Replacement, High-Deductible Health Plan With a Health Savings Account : A Five-Year Study
Fronstin, Paul; Roebuck, M. Christopher - 2014
, office visits increased for HSA-eligible health plan enrollees, but were mostly unchanged for the comparison group. By the … were down slightly relative to the comparison group. Rates of LDL testing for adults with cardiovascular disease were … plan than in the comparison group. In contrast, cervical cancer screening was lower among HSA-eligible health plan …
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Pharmaceutical Cost-Sharing Systems and Savings for Health Care Systems from Parallel Trade
Birg, Laura - 2013
This paper analyzes the consequences of parallel trade on health care systems in a two-country model with a vertical distributor relationship. In particular, two cost-sharing systems coinsurance and indemnity insurance are compared with respect to changes in copayments and public health...
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