We use a five percent sample of Americans' credit bureau data to study the effects of public health insurance on the geography of consumer financial health. Exploiting the nearly universal eligibility for Medicare at age 65, we find a 30 percent reduction in the level of debts in collections...

Solidarität bedeutet in der GKV zweierlei - auf der einen Seite ein Risikoausgleich zwischen niedrigen und hohen Risiken, die alle entsprechend einer durchschnittlichen Schadenserwartung zu gleichen Bedingungen versichert werden; auf der anderen Seite ein sozialer Ausgleich, der durch die...

Gemäss den vorläufigen Zahlen nahmen die gesamten nominalen Gesundheitsausgaben im Jahr 2017 um 2.6% zu und somit weniger stark als in den Vorjahren. Da das Bruttoinlandprodukt (BIP) jedoch ebenfalls deutlich langsamer wuchs, erhöhte sich das Verhältnis der Gesundheitsausgaben zum BIP erneut...

Nearly half of high earning workers receive performance pay as part of their compensation, but we know strikingly little about the incentive effects of piece rate compensation on high-skilled workers. In this paper, we examine changes in medical providers' output in response to a piece rate...

Gemäss den definitiven Zahlen nahmen die gesamten nominalen Gesundheitsausgaben im Jahr 2018 gegenüber dem Vorjahr um 0.8% zu und somit weniger stark als in den Vorjahren. Das Verhältnis der Gesundheitsausgaben zum Bruttoinlandprodukt (BIP) betrug 11.2% im Jahr 2018 (im Vergleich zu 11.5% im...

"The first edition addressed the complexity of health care finance and tied everything into health care reimbursement and Revenue Cycle Management (RCM). The book was designed to act as a reference source for the health care administrator to assist in navigating their organization through the...

"Emma Dowling examines the care crisis in the UK, looking at the changes to the care system over the last decade. Dowling gives an account not only of the impact of austerity measures on care provision in the UK but also of the underlying logic of neoliberalism driving the crisis."

In many federally-subsidized insurance markets, insurers are subsidized on the basis of enrollee characteristics; in principle, subsidies that are "risk adjusted" in this way compensate insurers for ex ante differences in expected cost. Between 2010 and 2011, the subsidies in Medicare Part D...

Die Sondierungsgespräche zwischen der Union und der SPD haben die Diskussion über eine Reform der Krankenversicherung wieder auf die Tagesordnung gesetzt. Eine »Bürgerversicherung«, mit der die Trennung von privaten und gesetzlichen Krankenkassen aufgehoben würde, wird es nicht geben. Aber...

This paper discusses the development of Indonesia's health insurance programme as a lens through which to understand Indonesian social policy development. The Indonesian health insurance programme has experienced considerable development despite fluctuating economic growth and political...

As health care costs rise, so too does the importance of assessing their incidence, and factoring these costs into measures of post-government income distribution. This paper contributes to this assessment by calculating the effect of government policy on the distribution of income by adjusting...

In developed countries, both universal and optional parts of healthcare exist. This article shows the importance and fiscal position of universally available care and suggests where it can be extended by optional financing schemes such as prepaid health programmes. We use a comparative approach,...

We investigate the social value of medical interventions at the end of life that tend to have a high cost-benefit ratio. We model the optimal allocation of health resources across a continuum of diseases that dier by severity and treatment options, and extend it to allow for learning spillovers...

This paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that spread across and within countries over 50 years. Apart from differences in initial conditions and income levels, the nature of the state has also been an important determinant of...