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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Private Health Insurance"”.
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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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Effects of a Medicare, Medicaid and Private Health Insurance Program on Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Elderly Citizens
… of Illinois' Medicare-Medicaid Consumer Health Information Education Program developed for elderly citizens in two Cooperative Extension regions in North Central and Southern Illinois. Another purpose was to devise a valid and reliable instrument for assessing elderly citizens knowledge …
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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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Risk factors for non-communicable disease and healthcare expenditure in South African employees with private health insurance presenting for health risk appraisal
… these risk factors were associated with higher healthcare costs.
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The demand for hospital care and private health insurance in a mixed public and private health care system : theoretical and empirical analysis for the case of Australia
… how individuals seek hospital care and purchase private health insurance in a mixed public and private hospital system such as that of Australia. To achieve this objective, a theoretical model with explicit functional forms is first developed to analyse the determinants of the intensity of …
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The demand for hospital care and private health insurance in a mixed public and private health care system : theoretical and empirical analysis for the case of Australia
… how individuals seek hospital care and purchase private health insurance in a mixed public and private hospital system such as that of Australia. To achieve this objective, a theoretical model with explicit functional forms is first developed to analyse the determinants of the intensity of …
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Health insurance in Saudi Arabia: funding options to manage the risk of government healthcare spending
The Saudi Ministry of Health’s budgets demonstrated a sharp continuous increase in the period from 2006 to 2015, putting high burdens on the government at a time when the economy suffered slow growth as a result of the plummet in oil prices. This research was conducted to provide a solution for the …
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The Prevalence Of Mental Disorders And Associated Out-Ofpocket Expenditure Among Insured Patients In South Africa
… are believed to be struggling with poor mental health, with less than a quarter of this population ever receiving mental health care. A potential strategy for reducing such treatment gaps is private health insurance (PHI). Around 18% of the total South African population is medically insured. …
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An empirical examination of risk equalisation in a regulated community rated health insurance market
… universal access entitlements to the public healthcare system in Ireland, over half the population is covered by voluntary private health insurance. The market operates on the basis of community rating, open enrolment and lifetime cover. A set of minimum benefits also exists, and two risk …
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Essays in unemployment insurance
… household responses to state unemployment insurance (UI) generosity across spells of unemployment, with a particular emphasis on the role of liquidity constraints. Enacted in 1986, the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) provides limited portability of employer-sponsored …
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Distributional impact of health care finance in South Africa
In South Africa, health care is financed through different mechanisms - allocations from general taxes, private health insurance contributions and direct out-of-pocket payments. These mechanisms impact differently on different households. While there are empirical evidence in developed countries, …
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Adverse selection and government intervention in life and health insurance markets
This thesis examines the workings of insurance markets. The first two papers examine the effect of government tax and regulatory policy in markets for supplementary health insurance. The third paper presents new evidence of the importance of adverse selection in insurance markets. The first paper …
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Analysis of National Health Insurance Proposals and Their Potential Impact on the Present Health Care System
… himself and his family from the perils of poor health and the financial burdens that invariably accompany it. | As 1973 fast approaches, the realization is becoming more widespread that there must be a change in the organization and delivery of our health care system to make it available to all …
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Political Awareness and Public Opinion on Health Care Reform
… especially on contentious policy issues such as health care reform. Political information from elite discourse is often partisan in nature, which shapes citizens’ attitudes toward policy issues. Citizens who are politically aware process political information differently compared to those who are …
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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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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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The Lived Experience of K-12 Educators Who Practice Within An Acute Care Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital
… medical system that serves both clients with private health insurance as well as clients on a variety of government sponsored health plans. Within this setting, the turnover rate for the special education teachers was approximately 72% between 2005-2010. Using a sample of 6 volunteer teachers, …
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Patients' choice between the National Health Service and the private sector in the United Kingdom
… surgery patients choose between the public and private hospital sectors in the United Kingdom, and to analyze government policy changes which affect this choice. First the choice between the public and private sectors is modeled for the case where there is no private insurance available. The …
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Performance and JSE listing of selected South African hospital operators
… Status and performance of selected South African private Hospital Operators covering a 10- year period from 2008-2017. The selected proxies for the hospital performance measured were: Total Annual Revenue, Revenue per Bed per Day, Total Number of Hospital Beds, and EBITDA margin while controlling …
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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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