Gruber, Jonathan, and Aaron Yelowitz (1999), "Public health insurance and private saving", Journal of Political Economy 107, 1249-74.Public health insurance and private savings - Gruber, Yelowitz - 1999 () Cita
Private health insurance typically providesfaster accessto specialists and elective procedures, often bypassing the long waiting times associated with the public system. However, it is important to note that private insurance may come with higher premiums and requires a more complex application process, ...
Viewing the contract through a financialised lens we can see how this contract has been used to ‘make up’ a market for the private delivery of public healthcare in Spain. We also call into question the role of the Spanish savings banks in financing this type of project, which has now...
Public health departments have local expertise, skills implementing high-value interventions, and trust with many populations, but financial constraints often limit their success and reach. Meanwhile, payers—both public and private—have financial incentives to preserve and promote the health of their me...
The report suggests there is a need for expanding public health insurance to fill the gap in private financing of health care services in many countries. However, the overall effect of increasing public health insurance benefits on welfare is not clear. On the one hand, such a policy would ...
I develop and estimate a rich dynamic life-cycle model of labor supply, savings, and Social Security application that captures the key structure of Social Security retirement benefits, disability insurance, and pension systems, while accounting for uncertainties in health, survival, wages, and medical...
However, purchase ability has increased for many; parallelly the choice of institute has also shifted towards private facilities, in search of availability of physician and quality care. Despite implementing several central and state policies and schemes, families still had to spend from their savings...
regulation ofdeterminants of health(such asfood safetyand sanitation), and the provision of key health services with an emphasis on prevention. Because private actors lack sufficient incentive and ability to undertake population-wide measures, public health is a vital resource for which government is ...
The adverse selection theory speculates a high level of demand for health insurance by people with vulnerable health conditions. However, the COVID-19 pandemic changed the prevailing narratives and pattern of healthcare utilization in many African countr
economy of healthcare reform in China: negotiating public and private Arthur Daemmrich Abstract China's healthcare system is experiencing significant growth from expanded government-backed insurance, greater public-sector spending on hospitals, and the introduction of private insurance and for-profit ...