Bonus Options In Health Insurance

Author : Peter Zweifel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401125307

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Bonus Options in Health Insurance by Peter Zweifel Pdf

Confronted with the continuing cost expansion in the health care sector, policy makers face a dilemma: limiting moral hazard in medical care requires that consumers participate in the cost, yet copayment is strongly resisted by today's socially insured. Thus, the experiences of three private German health insurers will be of interest to physicians, social scientists, and policy makers. Insurer A writes conventional plans with deductibles and coinsurance; B pays back three-monthly premiums as a fixed rebate for no claims; while C runs an experience-rated bonus system starting with a rebate of three-monthly premiums for the first year without a claim, reaching a maximum of five after three years. While both rebates and bonuses are quite popular among insureds, this study shows that bonus options are particularly effective in limiting the demand for ambulatory and even hospital care. But what about adverse effects on health caused by the desire to save one's bonus? On this issue, there is some surprising evidence.

Author : Otto Waser,Professor of Economics Peter Zweifel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1992-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9401125317

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Bonus Options in Health Insurance by Otto Waser,Professor of Economics Peter Zweifel Pdf

Author : John Lavis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12
Category : Medical care
ISBN : 1927565111

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Ontario's Health System by John Lavis Pdf

Author : Allison Percy
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PURD:32754077079659

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Growth in medical spending by the Department of Defense by Allison Percy Pdf

A CBO Study. Examines reasons for the increase in spending on medical care by the Department of Defense from fiscal years 1998-2003. Also considers directions in future medical spending. From fiscal year 1988 to 2003, the Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) spending on medical care almost doubled in real terms. That growth occurred despite large reductions in the size of the active-duty military force and a substantial reduction in the size of the military’s own hospital system. This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) study—prepared at the request of the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee—examines the reasons for those increases and considers directions for the future. Already, DoD’s total spending on health care is more than half as large as its cash compensation. Looking forward, CBO’s analysis examines how overall growth of health care costs in the economy could affect DoD’s health care costs through 2020, as well how changes in benefits could do so.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Budget
ISBN : SRLF:D0011520434

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Budget Options: The private health insurance market by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Department of the Treasury,United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Revenue
ISBN : PURD:32754077530040

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Estimates of Federal Tax Expenditures by United States. Department of the Treasury,United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means Pdf

Author : Peter Zweifel,Carl Hampus Lyttkens,Lars Söderström
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461540526

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Regulation of Health: Case Studies of Sweden and Switzerland by Peter Zweifel,Carl Hampus Lyttkens,Lars Söderström Pdf

Health care arguably is the single most regulated industry in industrial countries, and possibly in newly industrialized and developing countries as well. But what exactly is being regulated, what are the instruments used, and what are the effects and side-effects of such regulation? Regulation of Health: Case Studies of Sweden and Switzerland seeks to resolve problems in answering these key questions regarding the health care sector in two countries - Sweden and Switzerland. The volume contains a series of studies that compare the regulation of health and health care in these two apparently very similar countries, in considerable detail. The contributing teams acquired a great deal of knowledge about health regulation in both countries; they also derived comparative predictions when regulation differs, using actual observations to check whether these predictions are borne out. These comparisons are based on the conditions prevailing in the mid-nineties.

Author : Andrew M. Jones
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780857938138

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The Elgar Companion to Health Economics by Andrew M. Jones Pdf

ÔThe Elgar Companion to Health Economics is a comprehensive and accessible look at the field, as seen by its leading figures.Õ Ð Joseph Newhouse, Harvard Medical School, US Acclaim for the first edition: ÔThis Companion is a timely addition. . . It contains 50 chapters, from 90 contributors around the world, on the topical and policy-relevant aspects of health economics. . . there is a balanced coverage of theoretical and empirical materials, and conceptual and practical issues. . . I have found the Companion very useful.Õ Ð Sukhan Jackson, Economic Analysis and Policy ÔThis encyclopedic work provides interested readers with an authoritative and comprehensive overview of many, if not all, of the current research issues in health economics. Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above.Õ Ð R.M. Mullner, Choice This comprehensive collection brings together more than 50 contributions from some of the most influential researchers in health economics. It authoritatively covers theoretical and empirical issues in health economics, with a balanced range of material on equity and efficiency in health care systems, health technology assessment and issues of concern for developing countries. This thoroughly revised second edition is expanded to include four new chapters, while all existing chapters have been extensively updated. The Elgar Companion to Health Economics, Second Edition intends to take an audience of advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers to the current frontier of research by providing concise and readable introductions to key topics.

Author : J.-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642954986

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Essays in Social Security Economics by J.-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg Pdf

Presented at the Workshop on the Origin and Furure of Social Security Schemes, Berlin, December 13 - 14, 1984

Author : G. Duru,Jean H. Paul Paelinck
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789400920514

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Econometrics of Health Care by G. Duru,Jean H. Paul Paelinck Pdf

Econometrics of Health Care - which we have sometimes called 'medico metrics' - is a field in full expansion. The reasons are numerous: our knowl edge of quantitative relations in the field of health econometrics is far from being perfect, a large number of analytical difficulties - combining medical (latent factors, e. g. ) and economic facts (spatial behaviour, e. g. ) are faced by the research worker, medical and pharmaceutical techniques change rapidly, medical costs rocket more than proportionally with available resources, of being tightened. medical budgets are in the process So it is not surprising that the practice of 'hygieconometrics' - to produce a neologism - is more and more included in the programmes of econometri cians. The Applied Econometrics Association has devoted to the topic two symposia in less than three years (Lyons, February 1983; Rotterdam, December 1985), without experiencing any difficulties in getting valuable papers: on econometrics of risks and medical insurance, on the measurement of health status and of efficiency of medical techniques, on general models allowing simulation. These were the themes for the second meeting, but other aspects of medical-economic problems had presented themselves already to the analyst: medical decision making and its consequences, the behaviour of the actors - patients and physicians -, regional medicometrics and what not: some of them have been covered by the first meeting. Finally, in July 1988 took place in Lyons the Fourth International Conference on System Science in Health Care; it should not be astonishing .

Author : Cynthia Ramsay,Michael Walker,William McArthur
Publisher : The Fraser Institute
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Health care reform
ISBN : 9780889751651

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Healthy Incentives by Cynthia Ramsay,Michael Walker,William McArthur Pdf

Author : Peter Zweifel,Roland Eisen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642205484

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Insurance Economics by Peter Zweifel,Roland Eisen Pdf

"Winner of the 2014 Kulp-Wright Book Award Presented by the American Risk and Insurance Association". More information can be found here: http://www.aria.org/awards/bookawards.htm Insurance Economics brings together the economic analysis of decision making under risk, risk management and demand for insurance by individuals and corporations, objectives pursued and management tools used by insurance companies, the regulation of insurance, and the division of labor between private and social insurance. Appropriete both for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of economics, management, and finance, this text provides the background required to understand current research. Predictions derived from theoretical argument are not only stated but confronted with empirical evidence. Throughout the book, conclusions summarize results, helping readers to check their knowledge and understanding. Issues discussed include paradoxa in decision making under risk, selection of favorable risks by insurers, the possibility of a "death spiral" in insurance markets, and future challenges such as re-regulation in the wake of the 2007-09 financial crisis and the increasing availability of generic information.

Author : Peter Zweifel,Friedrich Breyer,Mathias Kifmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783540685401

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Health Economics by Peter Zweifel,Friedrich Breyer,Mathias Kifmann Pdf

This is the most complete text available on the economics of health behavior and health care delivery. Appropriate both for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students of economics, this text provides the key analytical tools required to understand current research. Issues discussed include the "cost explosion" in health care, the power of medical associations, the search for remuneration systems with favorable incentives, and technological change in medicine. Rather than simplifying the issues facing today’s healthcare systems, the book models existing complexities as they are, adapting economics to reflect the views of the average person.

Author : Robert B. Helms
Publisher : American Enterprise Institute
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0844741183

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Medicare in the Twenty-first Century by Robert B. Helms Pdf

These leading health economics experts make various recommendations for saving the popular Medicare program and grapple with finding a solution that is realistic, fair, and efficient.

Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015074107684

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Current Catalog by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) Pdf

First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.