Competition in a publicly funded healthcare system

Woolhandler and David U Himmelstein system Competition in a publicly funded healthcare

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A Macroeconomic Analysis of Publicly Funded Healthcare

Cross-Border Healthcare Requests to Publicly Funded Healthcare Insurance: Empirical Analysis

Despite the legal authority to confirm, override or modify healthcare insurance decisions made by physicians and government officials, health tribunal decisions have not been empirically analyzed. Using a novel quantitative methodology, all 387 Health Services Appeal and Review Board written and publicly available electronic decisions released over a five-year time period were statistically ana...

Publicly funded contraceptive care: a proven investment.

This year has been a difficult one for the nation's publicly funded family planning programs, which have faced unprecedented threats. Some of these threats appear driven primarily by policy makers struggling to close budget deficits, many of whom have set their sights on Medicaid. During FY 2011, 43 states attempted to reduce Medicaid costs through such steps as cutting provider reimbursement, ...

Publicly-funded homebirth models in Australia.

BACKGROUND Publicly-funded homebirth programs in Australia have been developed in the past decade mostly in isolation from each other and with limited published evaluations. There is also distinct lack of publicly available information about the development and characteristics of these programs. We instigated the National Publicly-funded Homebirth Consortium and conducted a preliminary survey o...