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Showing 1 to 20 of 422 for “"Health insurance"”.
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Examining health insurance literacy for employer-based health insurance education.
Many employees report being satisfied with the health plans offered by their employer; however, research shows that they do not understand the key terms and concepts needed to effectively choose and use a health plan. Health insurance terminology and concepts are complicated and require various …
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Essays on health insurance
<p>Uninsured individuals receive fewer health care services for at least three reasons: higher prices, responsibility for the entire bill, and potential provider reductions for concern of non-payment. This study isolates differences in service levels between insured and uninsured individuals that …
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Health Insurance, Pensions and Wages
… wage outcomes associated with employer-provided health insurance (EHI) in the United States, participation decisions regarding employer-associated pension plans in Britain, and labor market consequences of the recent Massachusetts EHI mandate.</p><p> The first chapter uses 1996 and 2001 Survey of …
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Three Essays in Health Insurance
… “How do demand-side incentives relate to insurance transitioning behavior of public health insurance enrollees?”, “The Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Coverage Among Those Lacking Housing Basics, 2010-19” and “Health Insurance Coverage Changes under Affordable Care Act among High Housing …
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Regulation of public health insurance
… first years of a large federal prescription drug insurance program for seniors - Medicare Part D - to explore interactions among adverse selection, switching costs, and regulation. I document evidence of both adverse selection of beneficiaries across contracts and switching costs for beneficiaries …
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Tiered Provider Networks in Health insurance
Health insurers are increasingly using plan designs that incentivize consumers to shop for health care based on price. This dissertation studies the effects of one such plan design on demand and equilibrium prices. Tiered hospital networks group hospitals by price ranking and vary consumers' …
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Does health insurance matter for entrepreneurship?
We study the effect of improved access to health insurance on entrepreneurial rates across industries. We use the 2006 reform of the Massachusetts health care market as our shock. In contrast to previous research, we use our shock to test which kinds of startups were more likely to be created in …
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Essays on the economics of health insurance
… three essays on issues in the economics of health insurance. The first study considers the effects of average per-patient caps on Medicare reimbursement for home health care, which took effect in October 1997. I use regional variation in the restrictiveness of per-patient caps to identify …
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Medical expenditures and major risk health insurance
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1997.
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The perceptions of private health insurance administrator senior managers about the National Health Insurance (NHI) in South Africa, Cape Town
South Africa is implementing a National Health Insurance system (NHI) as a funding mechanism towards attaining Universal Health Coverage (UHC). The main aim of the NHI is to protect citizens from financial hardships caused by out-of-pocket payments for accessing health services. In South Africa, a …
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Actuarial Contributions to the Study of Health Insurance
… be combined to design fairer, more sustainable health insurance in Hungary. I start by mapping the landscape of key private health insurance products and the pricing techniques that underpin them. Alongside classic actuarial tools—commutation functions, Markov models, and net premium …
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Labor market effects of employment-based health insurance
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1993.
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Goal Conflict in the State Children's Health Insurance Program
… empirical analysis of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) from 1999-2007. This program was selected for analysis because it is a program in which goal conflict has been readily manifest, particularly during the 2007 SCHIP reauthorization attempts. Goal conflict in SCHIP is …
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Health Insurance Exchanges: A Panacea or a Band-Aid?
… the 111th Congress passed the first national health care reform in the United States, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). This landmark legislation is intended to "fix" a health care system renowned for decreasing access and escalating costs. This paper examines one of the …
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Essays on Economic Policy: Income Inequality and Health Insurance
… income inequality and the affordability of health insurance.</p> <p>The chapter on income inequality uses the Solow Model of economic growth to model the evolution of inequality over time. In steady state, differences in household saving rates generate differences in household capital …
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Three essays on wage inequality and health insurance coverage
… working population-- wage inequality and wage health insurance-- are studied. This thesis consists three chapters. In the first chapter, we (co-authored) examine the effects of corporate restructuring on wage patterns and inequality in a Fortune 500 firm. We show that the restructuring, …
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Health and utilization effects of expanding public health insurance
… in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs health care system to answer various questions about publicly-provided health care. The VA restructuring involved the adoption of a capitated payment system and treatment methods based on the managed care model. This reorganization was accompanied …
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What does it mean to have private health insurance coverage?
The health insurance is one of the most important insurance concerning the public since it serves to protect insured individuals from potential financial loss. This has been based on the theory of expected utility and the assumption that people generally prefer to lower risk uncertainty. In the …
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Tuberculosis Awareness and Public Opinion on Expanding Health Insurance Coverage
… variables on the level of support for expanding health insurance coverage for all residents, including undocumented immigrants. A modified 13-item tool developed by Morisky et al. (1990) was used to measure TB awareness; a single item created by the researcher assessed personal opinion regarding …
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Essays on the Industrial Organization of Public Health Insurance Markets
<p>I study the industrial organization of public health insurance markets with competition of insurance companies, focusing on the context of the Medicare Part D program. In the first chapter, I study how the the relations between insurance companies and pharmacy benefits managers affect the …
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