The impact of aging on different types of health care: The example of the Polish health insurance system

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. e557-e568 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewa Kocot
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Health Insurance System ◽  
Insurance System ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Impact

The Impact of Asymmetric Information in Vietnam's Health Insurance: An Empirical Analysis

2012 ◽  
pp. 5-21
Author(s):  
Minh Nguyen Thi ◽  
Phuong Hoang Bich ◽  
Thao Nguyen Thi
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Asymmetric Information ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Health Insurance System ◽  
Insurance Law ◽  
Moral Hazards ◽  
Insurance System ◽  
Care Services ◽  
The Impact

The Vietnam Health Insurance Law in 2008 promulgated universal health care by 2014. To build up a sound and sustainable health insurance system towards this goal, we need to account for the effect of asymmetric information on the use of the health care services, namely moral hazards and adverse selection. This paper uses distinc- tive features of Vietnam's health insurance system to separately estimate the effect of each type. Our results show that the effect of asymmetric information is quite severe and prevalent for old people, and is insignificant for young people. The results can be used for the construction of health insurance policies for Vietnam.

Holes in the Health Insurance System-Who Lacks Coverage and Why

2004 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 390-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Hoffman ◽  
Diane Rowland ◽  
Alicia L. Carbaugh
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
Health Insurance Coverage ◽  
Health Insurance System ◽  
Major Health ◽  
Insurance System ◽  
Current Health ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Care Costs

Lack of health insurance coverage is a large and growing problem for millions of American families. Rising health care costs and economic insecurity continue to threaten the bedrock of the health insurance system - employer-sponsored coverage - while states’ fiscal situations and the escalating federal deficit complicate any efforts at reform. Providing health insurance coverage to the millions of uninsured remains a major health care challenge for the nation and understanding the current health insurance environment, who the uninsured are, and why they are uninsured is critical when considering health care reform. This paper aims to define the problem of the uninsured, providing an overview of the uninsured in America and the roles and limits of private and public insurance. Following this discussion, the paper describes the current health insurance environment and examines the prospects for improving coverage.

scholarly journals The relationship between civilian and military health insurance: The condition for more efficient healthcare

Vojno delo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-88
Author(s):  
Damir Marković
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Insurance Fund ◽  
Health Insurance System ◽  
Military Health ◽  
Insurance System ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Military ◽  
Care System

The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between the Fund for Social Security of Military Insurers and the Republic Health Insurance Fund through the aspect of more efficient use of health insurance funds. Analyzing this relationship, the system of health care in the Republic of Serbia and the health insurance system are essentially considered. Taking into account the specifics of the social protection of military insurers, efforts are being made to find out the direction and improvement of relations with the civilian health care system. Only the proactive relationship between the military and the civilian health system and the health insurance system is a condition of better health care for the insured of both funds, as well as more efficient use of health insurance funds. Health protection of the population is one of the most important social priorities and as such it must be given special attention. The right of the individual to health care, but also to other forms of protection, is realized within the framework of social insurance. Health care, and therefore the health insurance system of military insureds, developed in accordance with the specifics related to the military system itself. Fully respecting the autonomy of the said system, the development of insurance in this area evolved along with changes in the prevailing civilian health insurance system. The system of health care and health insurance is one of the most important systems in each country. The efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the functioning of this system is a challenge for every national economy. The goal that needs to be achieved is to achieve the best health care of the nation by means of available health insurance. The system of compulsory health insurance in the Republic of Serbia is implemented through a unique state organization - the Republic Health Insurance Fund. When it comes to health insurance and the protection of civil and military insurers, it is clear that these are two completely separate and independent systems that have a lot of common points and whose mutual cooperation and shared use of resources should lead to positive effects as a whole. The financial aspect, which is especially reflected through the health insurance system, is one of the most important factors because it directly affects the scope and quality of the entire health care system. Considering and analyzing the complexity of the mutual relations between the civilian and military health and social security systems, and consequently the health care system, some of the possible proposals have emerged for improvement of one of the most important aspects of every society - the health of the nation.

scholarly journals Structural and Regional Characteristics and Cost Efficiencies in the Local Public Health Insurance System: Empirical Evidence from the Japanese National Health Insurance System

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 262
Author(s):  
Michio Yuda
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effect ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
National Health Insurance ◽  
National Health ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Health Insurance System ◽  
Insurance System ◽  
Care Systems

<p><em>In this study, I use panel data from municipal Japanese National Health Insurance (JNHI) insurers to estimate their financial efficiency scores using nonparametric methods and to estimate the causal effects of structural and regional characteristics on the efficiency scores consistently using econometric methods. The major findings of this study are as follows. First, the estimated efficiency scores imply that many JNHI insurers have serious financial inefficiencies, and that total cost efficiency (economic efficiency) is strongly and positively correlated with allocative efficiency. Second, the empirical results of the effects of various factors on efficiency scores indicate that the two major policy reforms for health care systems for the elderly in 2008 contribute strongly to the improvement of JNHI insurers’ finances. Third, the subsidy from a prefectural government positively affects efficiencies, but subsidies from central and municipal governments have an adverse effect. Fourth, contributions to health care systems for the elderly still have an adverse effect on JNHI finances.</em></p>

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