Can universal access be achieved in a voluntary private health insurance market? Dutch private insurers caught between competing logics

Implementing Health Care Reform with All-Payer Regulation, Private Insurers, and a Voluntary Public Insurance Plan

The Cost Control paper argues that health care reform proposals without serious cost controls will fail both as policy and politically. Most of the agenda being discussed in current debate has already been judged by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO 2008) as unlikely to yield significant savings within the necessary time frame. That paper reviews both the compelling reasons for doubt about r...

Understanding Perception and Factors Influencing Private Voluntary Health Insurance Policy Subscription in the Lucknow Region

Background Health insurance has been acknowledged by researchers as a valuable tool in health financing. In spite of its significance, a subscription paralysis has been observed in India for this product. People who can afford health insurance are also found to be either ignorant or aversive towards it. This study is designed to investigate into the socio-economic factors, individuals’ health i...

Private Medical Care Expenditures and Voluntary Health Insurance, 1948–60

PRIVATE expenditures for medical care in the United St,ates amounted in 1060 to $10.6 billion. This total was nearly $1.6 billion more than that spent in 1059. The data presented here for 1060 represent a continuation of a series of annual estimates made by the Division of Program Research and published each year, generally in the December issue of the BULLETIN. Slight adjustments have been mad...

Private Medical Care Expenditures and Voluntary Health Insurance, 1948–61

THE NATION’S private consumer expenditures for medical care amounted in 1961 to $21.1 billion$1.3 billion or approximately 7 percent more than the amount spent in 1960. Direct out-of-pocket payments by consumers amounted to $14.4 billion or 68 percent of the total. The balance of $6.7 billion, representing payments for health insurance, was $832 million or 14 percent greater than the amount spe...

Private Health Insurance in France