Rwanda is among the few countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and the developing approaching universal health insurance … number of stand-alone community based health insurance schemes and gradually evolved into a unified social health insurance … plan. The country has also made remarkable progress in ameliorating child health, particularly since 2005, which coincides …

In health care systems today, including those of Switzerland and the United States, participants do not necessarily see … the big picture of lifetime health costs and quality of life, and in many systems consumers and providers lack the … incentives to manage preventative and chronic care to minimize lifetime private and social health costs. Resource allocation …

. Our findings suggest that the ACA Medicaid expansions had important financial impacts beyond health care use. …

In 2003 the Government of Ghana established a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to improve health care access for … its purpose in the context of the Millennium Development Goals #4 and #5 which deal with the health of women and children … compare health outcomes of recent mothers who are enrolled in the NHIS with those who are not. Our findings suggest that NHIS …

transitions into and out of health insurance coverage. We first decompose racial differences in static health insurance coverage … rates into group differences in transition rates into and out of health insurance coverage. The low rate of health insurance … coverage among African-Americans is due almost entirely to higher annual rates of losing health insurance than whites. Among …

declining health insurance coverage. In this paper we examine the long term effects of the only employer health insurance … mandate that has ever been enforced in the United States, Hawaii's Prepaid Health Care Act, using a standard supply … Hawaii and other states increased, as did real health insurance costs, implying a rising burden of the mandate on Hawaii …

We investigate the effect of health insurance on labor market transitions in and out of self-employment as well as on … the likelihood of being self-employed. We consider the role of individual health insurance coverage along with that from a …-tax health insurance premium on the entry rate, with no effect on exits from self-employment or the likelihood of being self-employed. …

We study the dependence of health insurance availability of near-elderly inpatients in the United States with respect …

purchased health insurance coverage for their children. This health insurance tax credit (HITC) existed during tax years 1991 … estimate the HITC's effect on private health insurance coverage of low-earning single mothers. The findings suggest that during … 1991-1993, the health insurance coverage of single mothers was about 6 percentage points higher than it would have been in …