Universal health care coverage: A potential hybrid solution
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A hybrid approach combining universal risk pools, mandated coverage with income-based subsidies, and a restructured payment mechanism is found to have a great potential for improving both the equity and efficiency of health care coverage in the U.S. A collective risk pool will reallocate funds, market-disciplined carriers will facilitate payment and appropriate incentives will help in ensuring that health care expenditures are driven by informed patient and clinician decisions about the care required to achieve high-quality outcomes.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2007
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Trends in private and public health insurance for adolescents
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A study is conducted to assess the current health insurance status of adolescents, the demographic and socioeconomic correlates of insurance coverage, and documenting recent changes in public and private coverage rates. A modest reduction in the percentage of adolescents without insurance has occurred since1995, as a result of expansion in public coverage.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2004
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What is different about the market for health care?
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The article discusses three classical efforts to describe, to quantify and propose solutions to market distortions in health care.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2007
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