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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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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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Physician density in a two-tiered health care system

Gächter, Martin; Schwazer, Peter; Theurl, Engelbert; … - 2011

We investigate the density of private physicians in a two-tiered health care system, i.e., one with co-existing public and private health care providers. In particular, we analyze how the densities of private and public suppliers of outpatient health care (general practitioners and specialists)...

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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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Reviving Progressive Activism : How a Human Rights Movement Won the Country’s First Universal Health Care Law

Rudiger, Anja - 2015

With the passage of Act 48 in May 2011, Vermont has become the first U.S. state to enact a law for a universal, publicly financed health care system. The state is on course for implementing a single payer system by 2017. This first breakthrough in the decades-long struggle for universal health...

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Health care expenditure and the state of health care sector in selected European Union countries

Hady, Joanna; Leśniowska, Małgorzata - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 7 (2011) 4, pp. 25-36

concludes with a comparison of the state of the Polish system to the state of the systems in other European countries …

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Excessive Pharmaceutical Prices and Competition Law : Doctrinal Development to Protect Public Health

Abbott, Frederick M. - 2017

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The European Health Data Space

Marcus, J. Scott; Martens, Bertin; Carugati, Christophe; … - 2022

This study for the European Parliament Policy Department examines the regulation for a European Health Data Space (EHDS), proposed by the European Commission in May 2022. The EHDS introduces mandatory rules for electronic health record to facilitate user access and portability of personal health...

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Drivers of high US healthcare spending : an international comparative study

Wu, Lifang - In: International journal of comparative management 3 (2020) 3, pp. 208-229

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