Health Insurance Policies
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13. To offer or not to offer: the role of price in employers' health insurance decisions.
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the effect of changes in price on employers' decisions to offer health insurance. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING: A 1993 survey of 22,347 private employers in ten states was used. STUDY DESIGN: Probit regression was used to estimate the probability of offering insurance as a function of the price and employer characteristics. For employers
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14. Consumer knowledge of Medicare and supplemental health insurance benefits.
In this article, data from a recent study funded by the Health Care Financing Administration are used to examine the level of knowledge about health care insurance coverage among Medicare beneficiaries. Two related categories of this knowledge are analyzed: knowledge of the Medicare program itself and knowledge of supplemental health insurance policies owned
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15. Employment and insurance for young adults with congenital heart disease.
OBJECTIVE--To determine the life and health insurability and employability of young adults with congenital heart disease. DESIGN--Questionnaire study. SETTING--Cardiac department of a tertiary referral hospital for children. PATIENTS--Young adults 18-30 years old with a variety of congenital heart defects, both simple and complex, including postoperative pat
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16. Designing health insurance information for the Medicare beneficiary: a policy synthesis.
Can Medicare beneficiaries make rational and informed decisions about their coverage under the Medicare program? Recent policy developments in the Medicare program have been based on the theory of competition in medical care. One of the key assumptions of the competitive model is the free flow of adequate information, enabling the consumer to make an informe
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17. Why it's time for a national health program in the United States.
The United States lacks a coherent national health program. Current programs leave major gaps in coverage and recently have become more restrictive. Influential policies that have failed to correct crucial problems of the health-care system include competitive strategies, corporate intervention, and public-sector cutbacks with bureaucratic expansion. A natio
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18. The role of uninsurance and race in healthcare utilization by rural minorities.
OBJECTIVE: To examine the independent effects of minority status, residence, insurance status, and income on physician utilization, controlling for general health status and the presence of acute or chronic health problems. Of special interest was the question of utilization differences among rural minority populations, as compared with urban non-Latino whit
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19. The demand for health insurance coverage by low-income workers: can reduced premiums achieve full coverage?
OBJECTIVE: To assess the degree to which premium reductions will increase the participation in employer-sponsored health plans by low-income workers who are employed in small businesses. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING: Sample of workers in small business (25 or fewer employees) in seven metropolitan areas. The data were gathered as part of the Small Business Ben
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20. Out-of-pocket health spending by poor and near-poor elderly Medicare beneficiaries.
OBJECTIVE: To estimate out-of-pocket health care spending by lower-income Medicare beneficiaries, and to examine spending variations between those who receive Medicaid assistance and those who do not receive such aid. DATA SOURCES AND COLLECTION: 1993 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) Cost and Use files, supplemented with data from the Bureau of the