Medicare reimburses about one-half of the health care goods and services used by the eligible population (Laschober and Olin, 1996). Medicare beneficiaries usually find it desirable to hold supplementary health insurance to cover the cost sharing and services that Medicare does not cover. A previous report described the distribution of supplementary insurance in 1991, the first year the Medicar...

OBJECTIVE Health insurance provides financial support for health care expenditures. There are two types of health insurance: compulsory and voluntary. Voluntary health insurance can be divided into two categories: self-employed and supplementary. In this study, the main factors that affect the demand for self-employed health insurance in Iran were determined. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this cro...

introduction: in order to fulfill the health and medical needs of rural people, iran's medical services insurance organization approved a plan to provide rural health insurance in 2005. the plan aimed to make an appropriate context for the activities of private health care service providers in the rural areas and to meet public expectations for access to specialized medical services. in this st...

The private health insurance (commercial and supplementary health insurance) sector has undergone a revolutionary transformation in recent years, both in the number of individuals who own private plans, and in the financial scope of these plans. With these developments in the background, leaders of the Israeli healthcare system convened in December 2012 at the Dead Sea for a discussion on "Priv...