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 … by care providers, tackle the high spending on pharmaceuticals, strengthen the role of health insurers as purchasing …

funds spent on the health sector. Therefore the question arises as to whether it is possible to find the link between … expenditure on health and health conditions among societies in the EU countries. This article shows the relationship between … health financing and the condition of health in the societies of the new EU Member States. …

unintended side effects with regards to retiree health or healthcare costs. This study empirically analyzes the effect of (early … components of healthcare expenditure confirm a positive health effect caused by physical and emotional relief following … retirement. Apart from direct health effects, the results also reveal behavioral changes in the utilization of healthcare …

Background: Serbia has a health system financed by earmarked payroll taxes via the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF … health insurance contributions and transparency of both public and private sector (2 million employed financing 7 million … insured).Objective: To increase transparency of financial resources allocation by National health accounts in order to …

, and mortality in an event-study setting. Using claims data from a large German statutory health insurance, we find that …

Law and ethics are both essential attributes of a high-functioning health care system and powerful explainers of why … the existing system is so difficult to improve. U.S. health law is not seamless; rather, it derives from multiple sources … laws promoting market competition. Complying with law is important, but health professionals also should understand that …

://ssrn.com/abstract=2363398This text seeks to identify the objective and subjective aspects of rights to an existential minimum in health care … serious mistake to try to handle public health conflicts according to the typical judicial principles governing conflicts … under private law, because that distorts the public health system, with judicial orders that depart from the universal …

We use a Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) to evaluate the impact of cost-sharing on the use of health services. In … the Italian health system, individuals reaching age 65 and earning low incomes are given total exemption from cost …-sharing for health services consumption. Since the probability of exemption changes discontinuously at age 65, we use a Fuzzy RDD …

We estimate the health costs of supply-side barriers to accessing medical care. The setting is Colombia, where citizens … have a constitutional right to health care, but insurance companies that manage delivery impose restrictions on access. We … use administrative data on judicial claims for health as a proxy for unmet demand. We validate this using the register …

, and sorting healthier patients into participating hospitals. Conditional on patient health, however, doctors do not reduce …