Public policy and private health insurance: distributional impact on public and private hospital usage

Impact of Private Health Insurance on the Choice of Public versus Private Hospital Services

Public Health Insurance and Private Savings

Recent theoretical work suggests that means and asset-tested social insurance programs can explain the low savings of lower income households in the U.S. We assess the validity of this hypothesis by investigating the effect of Medicaid, the health insurance program for low income women and children, on savings behavior. We do so using data on asset holdings from the Survey of Income and Program...

Hormozgan public and private hospital managers’ knowledge regarding

Introduction: Hospital managers make decisions based on the statistics and information obtained from Statistic and Medical Records Department (SMRD). Methods: This is a descriptive-analytical study which is to determine the knowledge and attitude of Hormozgan province hospital administrator regarding SMRD. 18 hospital administrators underwent study. Results: The among governmental hospital ad...

Public-private partnerships and insurance regulation.

Changing Nature of Public and Private Health Insurance

While approximately 42 million Americans lack health insurance coverage (Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, 2001), the vast majority of Americans are covered for their health care expenditures by a complicated array of public and private programs. Private health insurance coverage grew rapidly during World War II as employers provided coverage as a fringe benefit to their employee...