The burden of health care expenditure and the feasibility of health insurance reform in Myanmar

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chaw Myint
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Health Care Expenditure ◽  
Insurance Reform ◽  
Health Insurance Reform

Equity in health care access to: assessing the urban health insurance reform in China

2002 ◽  
Vol 55 (10) ◽  
pp. 1779-1794 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon G. Liu ◽  
Zhongyun Zhao ◽  
Renhua Cai ◽  
Tetsuji Yamada ◽  
Tadashi Yamada
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Urban Health ◽  
Health Care Access ◽  
Equity In Health ◽  
Insurance Reform ◽  
Care Access ◽  
Health Insurance Reform ◽  
Equity In Health Care

scholarly journals Slovenian Complementary Health Insurance Reform – Dichotomy between the Internal Market and the Social Dimension

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 205-216
Author(s):  
Bruno Nikolić
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Health Care Financing ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Internal Market ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Financing System ◽  
Insurance Reform ◽  
Health Insurance Reform ◽  
The Social

Abstract Complementary health insurance is divided between the internal market (market principles) and social dimension, wherein the state has an extremely difficult task, as it must create the conditions necessary for the fair and efficient functioning of the health care financing system. Slovenia has failed to successfully accomplish this task, which consists of both ensuring the social dimension and also facilitating the operation of market principles. The aim of this article is not on the functioning of market principles, which are covered by the field of economics, but is instead on analyzing the dichotomy between the internal market (the rules that govern the functioning of the internal market) and the social dimension (the rules that enable the exercise of the social function), and, in this light, analyzes the legal regulation of the Slovenian complementary health insurance. Analysis of the legal regulation highlights the shortcomings in ensuring the social dimension, shortcomings which are, with the help of the measures proposed in the concluding section of the article, remedied by the author.

Health Care and the Labor Market

ILR Review ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-67
Author(s):  
Maria Hanratty ◽  
Olivia S. Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Care Insurance ◽  
Current Interest ◽  
Insurance Reform ◽  
Health Insurance Reform ◽  
Provide Health Care

Health insurance and the labor market are inextricably entwined in the United States. Yet, few studies to date have examined the uniquely American links between employees' demand for and employers' ability to provide health care insurance. This topic is of substantial current interest because employer-provided health insurance plays a central role in the national health insurance reform planning process.

scholarly journals Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance and the Promise of Health Insurance Reform

2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas C. Buchmueller ◽  
Alan C. Monheit
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
Health Care Financing ◽  
Health Insurance Coverage ◽  
System Reform ◽  
Insurance Reform ◽  
Health Insurance Reform ◽  
National Debate

The central role that employers play in financing health care is a distinctive feature of the U.S. health care system, and the provision of health insurance through the workplace has important implications well beyond its role as a source of health care financing. In this paper, we consider the “goodness of fit” of employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI) in the current economic and health insurance environments and in light of prospects for a vigorous national debate over the shape of health care reform. The main issue that we explore is whether ESI can have a viable role in health system reform efforts or whether such coverage will need to be significantly modified or even abandoned as reform seeks to address important issues in the efficient provision and equitable distribution of health insurance coverage.

Equity in the Finance of Health Care: Effects of the Dutch Health Insurance Reform

1991 ◽  
pp. 153-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. van Doorslaer ◽  
R. Janssen ◽  
A. Wagstaff ◽  
J. van Emmerik ◽  
F. Rutten
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Insurance Reform ◽  
Health Insurance Reform ◽  
Dutch Health

Pax medica op de helling ?

Res Publica ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-283
Author(s):  
Yvo Nuyens
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Professional Autonomy ◽  
Power Relationship ◽  
Insurance Reform ◽  
Health Insurance Reform ◽  
Medical Fees ◽  
The Government ◽  
State Of Affairs

After the sharp confiicts between the government and the medical unions in 1964 on the occasion of the health insurance reform, which introduced the «agreement system» for medical fees and repayments, a form of bargaining economy has developed in Belgian health care, with sick funds and medical unions as the major parties. This «Pax Medica» seems to be threatened by a series of financially motivated government measures aimed at reducing the medical group's professional autonomy and dominance. This article discusses the historical context, the parties involved and the development of these confiicts, pointing out the striking analogy with those of 1964, particularly as far as the unions strategy is concerned. The present state of affairs suggests not a threatening of the «Pax Medica», but rather a stabilization of the established power relationship between government, sick funds and medical unions, which will respect and continue the rules of democratic compromise.

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