Private Health Care Coverage
Mostrando 13-24 de 31 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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13. Desigualdades en la provisión de asistencia médica en el sector público de salud en Chile
From 1997 to 1999, the Chilean Ministry of Health conducted studies on the health care networks in each of the country's 13 regions in order to help plan regional health sector development and define investment projects. Health insurance coverage displayed major geographic, age, and gender variations. Out-patient and in-patient medical care in the public sec
Cadernos de Saúde Pública. Publicado em: 2002-08
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14. La polarización de la política de salud en México
In the last 17 years, health policy in Mexico has been shifted from a conception of integrated health care and a gradually extended coverage as a major responsability of the State and health care public institutions, to in the one hand, a very active promotion of market and private profit in health services and in the other, poverty relief programs. In this
Cadernos de Saúde Pública. Publicado em: 2001-02
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15. Contracting in the Private Inpatient Care Market of the Metropolitan Region of Salvador (Bahia, Brazil): Models and Performance
This study explored the contracts between private health insurers, users and providers, so as to determine the effects of specific contractual arrangements on the rates of admissions and expenditure per admission. The study proposed and tested a theoretical model built with the determinants of rates of admission and expenditure per admission in a health insu
Publicado em: 1998
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16. The illegality of private health care in Canada
WE ADDRESSED THE QUESTION OF WHETHER PRIVATE HEALTH CARE IS ILLEGAL in Canada by surveying the health insurance legislation of all 10 provinces. Our survey revealed multiple layers of regulation that seem to have as their primary objective preventing the public sector from subsidizing the private sector, as opposed to rendering privately funded practice ille
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17. Insurance coverage and access: implications for health policy.
Data are presented from a recent survey of the United States population comparing the characteristics and levels of access to medical care of persons under 65 years who have group or individual private health insurance, public health insurance, or no third-party coverage. The uninsured group appeared to fall between the privately insured and publicly insured
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18. Private Financing Options for Long-term Care
Private financing for long-term care now comes almost exclusively from out-of-pocket payments. Long-term-care costs quickly impoverish most elderly, resulting in Medicaid dependency. The consequences are profound for the western Sun Belt with its rapidly growing elderly population. Key private financing options are long-term-care individual retirement accoun
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19. Costs and coverage. Pressures toward health care reform.
Signs of discontent with the health care system are growing. Calls for health care reform are largely motivated by the continued increase in health care costs and the large number of people without adequate health insurance. For the past 20 years, health care spending has risen at rates higher than the gross national product. As many as 35 million people are
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20. National health insurance in America--can we practice with it? Can we continue to practice without it?
Health insurance in the United States is failing patients and physicians alike. In this country 37 million uninsured face economic barriers to care, and the health of many suffers as a result. The "corporatization" of medical care threatens professional values with an unprecedented administrative and commercial intrusion into the daily practice of medicine.
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21. Pew Memorial Trust policy synthesis: 2. Postretirement health benefits.
One-fourth of all those over 65 have some form of employer-provided retirement medical benefits. For these retirees and dependents, having this medical coverage may mean the difference between retirement security and ruin; but for employers, providing it could mean serious financial strain or even a threat to survival. The unfunded liability for retirement m
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22. Designing health insurance information for the Medicare beneficiary: a policy synthesis.
Can Medicare beneficiaries make rational and informed decisions about their coverage under the Medicare program? Recent policy developments in the Medicare program have been based on the theory of competition in medical care. One of the key assumptions of the competitive model is the free flow of adequate information, enabling the consumer to make an informe
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23. Out-of-pocket health spending by poor and near-poor elderly Medicare beneficiaries.
OBJECTIVE: To estimate out-of-pocket health care spending by lower-income Medicare beneficiaries, and to examine spending variations between those who receive Medicaid assistance and those who do not receive such aid. DATA SOURCES AND COLLECTION: 1993 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) Cost and Use files, supplemented with data from the Bureau of the
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24. Insurance status and access to health services among poor persons.
OBJECTIVE: We examine the relationship between health insurance status and access to care among low-income persons 65 years of age and under, taking into account their social demographic characteristics and health care needs. DATA SOURCES AND STUDY SETTING. Study groups consist of the subsamples of persons with incomes between 100 and 150 percent of the fede