scholarly journals The Macroeconomic Effects of Longevity Risk Under Private and Public Insurance and Asymmetric Information

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben J. Heijdra ◽  
Yang Jiang ◽  
Jochen O. Mierau
Keyword(s):  
Asymmetric Information ◽  
Longevity Risk ◽  
Public Insurance ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Macroeconomic Effects

Social versus Private Insurance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Pestieau ◽  
Mathieu Lefebvre
Keyword(s):  
Social Insurance ◽  
Private Insurance ◽  
Population Ageing ◽  
Fiscal Competition ◽  
Public Insurance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Risks ◽  
The Family ◽  
Private And Public

This chapter looks at the role of the public versus the private sector in the provision of insurance against social risks. After having discussed the evolution of the role of the family as support in the first place, the specificity of social insurance is emphasized in opposition to private insurance. Figures show the extent of spending on both private and public insurance and the chapter presents economic reasons to why the latter is more developed than the former. Issues related to moral hazard and adverse selection are addressed. The chapter also discusses somewhat more general arguments supporting social insurance such as population ageing, unemployment, fiscal competition and social dumping.

The Effect of Private and Public Insurance on Outcomes Post Orthotopic Liver Transplant

2011 ◽  
Vol 106 ◽  
pp. S127
Author(s):  
Nadir Zaidi ◽  
Suthat Liangpunsakul ◽  
Patricia Scott ◽  
Alfred Tector ◽  
Audrey Krause ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liver Transplant ◽  
Orthotopic Liver Transplant ◽  
Public Insurance ◽  
Private And Public

scholarly journals Access Inequalities between Private and Public Insurance Among Cancer Patients: Results of a National Survey in Brazil

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. A824
Author(s):  
NM Flores ◽  
E Minowa ◽  
LK Lee ◽  
J Vietri ◽  
D Pomerantz
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Patients ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Public Insurance ◽  
Private And Public

Conflict and Compromise over Tradeoffs in Universal Health Insurance Plans

2004 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 465-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark V. Pauly
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Tax Credits ◽  
The Political ◽  
Universal Health Insurance ◽  
Public Insurance ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Political Spectrum ◽  
Universal Health

Despite a consensus across the political spectrum that the problem of the chronically uninsured is in dire need of solution, little progress has heen made. Public spending goes to topping up coverage for the elderly, already heavily subsidized under Medicare, or helping people temporarily without insurance because of international trade dislocations, so that it is clear that something is lacking in the case for significantly reducing the number of uninsured persons. In this paper I suggest that there have been two missing ingredients: a strategy for breaking the political deadlock around this issue, and information about the benefits of coverage sufficient to persuade kindly but skeptical taxpayers that they should be willing to pay to help solve this problem.This article begins with a discussion of these two problems. It then outlines a strategy based on income-related or conditioned refundable tax credits for private and public insurance, coupled with a plan to assemble persuasive information that may move things forward.

Power as a Source of Risk

2021 ◽  
pp. 5-23
Author(s):  
VICTOR BURLACHUK
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Energy ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Public Insurance ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Subject

The problem of risk connected with the power administration requires a rethinking of traditional ideas about power. Its images of law and sovereignty, disciplinary domination within the framework of modern forms of government need to be rethought. The information theory of power developed by N. Luhmann and the concept of governmentality of M. Foucault are directed against the ideology of the subject, where the ruling subject is one of the effective means and images of power. For both Foucault and Luhmann, power is immanent in its own manifestations, it is synchronous with all transformations in the macrostructures of society and is not outside, but inside. For Luhmann, the risk of power is the risk of a decision. The topic of risk is not at all in the domain of the subject dimension; it must be sought in the state of the temporal and social dimension. However, modern society should present possible threats not in the risk mode, but in the danger mode. The problem is that it is impossible to identify false or correct decisions. Once the decision is made, the risk cannot be avoided. If there are no risk-free solutions, the multiplication of research and knowledge would not make it possible to move from risk to reliability. Luhmann's position is opposed by the followers of M. Foucault, who supplement the concept of government with the idea of reflexive control. Reflexive control abstracts from solution problems. For this direction, risk is a way of thinking about the world. Therefore, the task of management is to identify risky objects and accordingly coordinate management tasks and determine measures to eliminate or reduce the risk. The industrial society tried to protect itself by means of some kind of social contract against the dangers and damage generated by this society. A system of private and public insurance was established. Modern society questions the principle of insurance because it is unable to insure itself against the mega-hazards of nuclear energy or catastrophic climate change. The four pillars of "computable risks" are crumbling: compensation, constraint, security and computation. The risk has ceased to be calculable. Its incalculability characterizes the current state of society.

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