Background & objectives In India, health expenditure accounts for less than 5 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product and the level of out-of-pocket (OOP) spending is 69.5 per cent of total health expenditures. OOP expenditure exacerbates poverty and has a negative impact on equity and can increase the risk of vulnerable groups slipping into poverty. This study was conducted to estimate the OOP ...

Despite progressive universal drug coverage and pharmaceutical policies found in other countries, Canada remains the only developed nation with a publicly funded healthcare system that does not include universal coverage for prescription drugs. In the absence of a national pharmacare plan, a province may choose to cover a specific sub-population for certain drugs. Altho...

There is little documentation of the potential catastrophic effects of injuries on families due to out of pocket (OOP) expenditure for medical care. Patients who were admitted for at least one night in a tertiary care hospital of Chandigarh city due to injury were recruited and were followed-up at 1, 2 and 12 months after discharge to collect information on OOP expenditure. Out of the total 227...

OBJECTIVE The Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act required health plans to provide mental health and substance use disorder (MH/SUD) benefits on par with medical benefits beginning in 2010. Previous research found that parity significantly lowered average out-of-pocket (OOP) spending on MH/SUD treatment of children. No evidence is available on how pari...

• This Issue Brief examines the cost of health insurance and health care expenses in retirement. It examines recent trends in private-and public-sector retiree health benefits and the impact of these trends on current and future retirees. It also presents options that retirees currently have to supplement the Medicare program, and provides estimates of how much those options will cost current a...

This paper investigates the short-run impact of public insurance expansion under Affordable Care Act on out-of-pocket medical spending (OOP) and risk exposure among low-income, eligible households as well incidence cost providing insurance. Using data from Medical Expenditures Panel Survey (MEPS), I exploit exogenous variation in Medicaid eligibility rules across states, income groups time. fin...

Out-of-pocket expenses in healthcare show the level of direct payments by individuals paying for services that are not covered insurance. In Republic Serbia, high out-of-pocket is present considering dominant Bismarck model system and user income. Previous research shows significant impact socio-economic indicators afecting expenses. The objective to perform a cross-sectional analysis economic,...

Purpose Based upon estimates of the change in consumption due to a out-of-pocket-health expenses (dC/dOOPHE) for 43 countries, this paper aims argue reevaluation what constitutes OOPHE when determining health insurance especially wake Covid-19. Design/methodology/approach Reiterative truncated projected least squares (RTPLS), statistical technique designed handle omitted variables problem regre...