This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows: The objective of this review is to assess the effects of policies that regulate private health insurance.

Later this year, new provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 will transform the health care industry. Consumers will be able to purchase insurance through health insurance marketplaces, but many people who already have insurance could see their premiums rise. Insurers will need to help consumers navigate the new system.

This paper shows that patients with private health insurance (PHI) are being offered significantly shorter waiting times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the higher expected profitability of PHI relative to SHI holders.Further,we find that hospitals offering private insurees shorter waiting times as compared to SHI...

Data from the Current Population Survey are used in this DataWatch to explore the changing composition of health insurance coverage of the U.S. nonelderly population. The authors analyze coverage trends across various subpopulations for 1988-1993. During this time significant declines in employer-sponsored coverage coincided with equally significant increases in Medicaid coverage. Thus, the inc...

Policy makers in the so-called transition countries, as in all countries, face the challenge of improving the performance of their health systems. These countries share a unique historical experience – the period and collapse of communist rule – and all embarked on an unprecedented social, political and economic transition that began at the end of the 1980s. Despite this shared history, differe...

BACKGROUND In the fragmented US health insurance system, women's health insurance coverage is an outcome both of changes in the availability of private and public health insurance and of changing patterns of labor force participation and household formation. Over the past 2 decades, women's socioeconomic circumstances have changed and public policy around health insurance coverage for low-incom...

This paper examines how income levels affected the substitution of public health insurance for private health coverage under expansions of Illinois' State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Building on a technique developed by Abadie and Gardeazabal (2003), I estimate that among children whose family incomes are between 200% and 300% of the federal poverty level (FPL), 35% of those co...

We empirically examine how the decision to purchase private health insurance and hospitalization are made based on labor income, socio-demographic factors, and private health insurance. The increase in household labor income and wealth has a positive effect on purchasing private health insurance. This suggests a supplementary effect for public health insurance under the strict control of a two-...

background previous studies have mostly focused on socio-demographic and health-related determinants of health-related behaviors. although comprehensive health insurance coverage could discourage individual lifestyle improvement due to the ex-ante moral hazard problem, few studies have examined such effects. this study examines the association of a comprehensive set of factors including socio-d...