Are US Health Insurers Efficient or Not?

The Status of Young People who are not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET Rate)

The issue of employment and unemployment has always been one of the most important issues in the country. Considering the age structure of the countrychr('39')s population, adopting policies to create suitable job opportunities for young people and consequently reduce their unemployment is of particular importance. Lack of youth employment and economic pressure on families can expose them to so...

All of Us Are Smarter than Any of Us: Nondeterministic Wait-Free Hierarchies Are Not Robust

A wait-free hierarchy Herlihy91, Jayanti93] classiies object types on the basis of their strength in supporting wait-free implementations of other types. Such a hierarchy is robust if it is impossible to implement objects of types that it classiies as \strong" by combining objects of types that it classiies as \weak". We prove that, if nondeterministic types are allowed, the only wait-free hier...

Are health economics making us sick?

Do Health Insurers Possess Monopsony Power

This paper uses metropolitan data to test empirically if health insurers possess monopsony or monopoly-busting power on the buyer-side of the hospital services market. According to theory, monopsony power is indicated by a fall in output, whereas, monopoly-busting power is shown by an increase in output when buyer concentration rises. The empirical results provide evidence that greater health i...

“They Are After Quantity, Not Quality”: Health Providers’ Perceptions of Fee Exemption Policies in Morocco

Background A free obstetric care policy (FOCP) has been implemented in Morocco in 2008 in order to further decrease maternal mortality.   Methods Through in-depth interviews we explored the perceptions of health professionals in public Moroccan h...