Profits Before Health: An Insurance Tell-All

Think twice before you tell

Answer to the Rhythm Puzzle At first glance the ECG looks very abnormal. The P-wave morphology is not compatible with sinus rhythm, the conduction intervals are normal, and the QRS complexes are very abnormal in amplitude (micro-voltages in the extremity leads). In lead II there is almost no signal at all. Althoughmicro-voltages in the extremity leads are a common feature in one of the most pre...

Private health insurance profits: the need to take a closer look.

Who Needs Medicare? Health Insurance Sources for Disability Insurance Recipients Before and After Medicare Eligibility

Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) recipients are the only individuals who qualify for Medicare, the universal health care program for retirees, before age 65. The two-year waiting period between the DI benefit award and Medicare eligibility offers an insight into the health insurance system in U.S. DI recipients are both constrained not to work and to be chronically ill or dying. Hence,...

evidence of adverse selection in irans health insurance market

در این تحقیق به مطالعه وجود انتخاب نامساعد(کژ گزینی) در بازار بیمه درمان تکمیلی ایران پرداخته شده است. داده های مورد نیاز توسط پرسشنامه و به روش نمونه گیری خوشه ای جمع آوری شده است. پرسشنامه ها در میان افراد شاغل ساکن شهر تهران توریع شد. در این تحقیق با استفاده از تخمین دو مدل لجستیک و به دست آوردن ضریب همبستگی میان تقاضای بیمه درمان تکمیلی و رخداد خسارت به بررسی موضوع مورد نظر پرداخته شده است....

Health Insurance for All: An Evaluation of Mexicos Seguro Popular Program

This paper evaluates the e¤ects of Seguro Popular on household and individual level health-related consumption, health spending, health outcomes, and labor supply. First introduced in 2002, Seguro Popular provides free health care to the …fty percent of Mexican families that lack the social security protections granted to all formal sector workers in that country. The Seguro Popular program was...