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Organizational Fragmentation and Care Quality in the …

WEBIn a fragmented healthcare delivery system, high-quality care requires the smooth flow of information across diverse providers working within various orga-nizations in both in …

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Was the First Public Health Campaign Successful

WEBThe movement began with the establishment of the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis in 1892 and gained momentum when the National …

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Income, Health, and Well-Being around the World: …

WEBIn 2006, the Gallup Organization ran a World Poll using samples of people in each of 132 countries. With the exception of Angola, Cuba, and Myanmar, where the samples are …

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The RAND Health Insurance Experiment, Three …

WEBMore than three decades later, the RAND results are still widely held to be the “gold standard” of evidence for predicting the likely impact of health insurance reforms on …

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The Evolution of Medical Spending Risk

WEBUsing this metric, private health spending (as shown by the top line with circles) increased from about $700 to $3,500 between 1960 and 2007, a five-fold increase. But the lion’s …

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Social Media and Mental Health

WEBVery few technologies since television have so dramatically reshaped the way people spend their time and interact with others. As social media started gaining …

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Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the …

WEBKatherine Baicker, Amitabh Chandra, and Mark Shepard 101 US insurance system with many inherent limitations. These include labor market “job lock” (in which workers …

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Health Care Exceptionalism

WEBTHE US HEALTH CARE SE TOR 2113. (“static allocation”) and causing higher productivity providers to experience more growth over time (“dynamic allocation”). The literature to …

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Health Insurance and Income Inequality

WEBGovernment tax policy regarding health insurance also influences inequality because employer contributions for employer-provided health insurance are not subject to …

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The (Paper)Work of Medicine: Understanding …

WEBMello, Chandra, Gawande, and Studdert (2010) estimate the costs of this defensive medicine at $46 billion, and the costs of the malpractice system as a whole (including …

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How Do Patents Affect Follow-On Innovation

WEBAmerican Economic Review 2019, 109(1): 203–236 https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20151398 203 *Sampat: Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 W 168th

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The Challenges of Universal Health Insurance in Developing …

WEBVL. 111 N. 9 BANERJEE ET AL.: CHALLENGES F UNIERSAL HEALTH INSURANCE 3037 We designed three interventions that simple economic theory …

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Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient

WEBBut the efficiency cost of the U.S. health system has also been estimated at 20–30 percent of healthcare spending, or 3–5 percent of GDP (Fisher et al., 2003a, b; Skinner, Fisher, …

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Lessons from 20 Years of Health Insurance in Low- and …

WEBJishnu Das and Quy-Toan Do 125 low- and middle-income countries are poorly developed and have not been used successfully in combination with health insurance schemes, …

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Universal Early-Life Health Policies in the Nordic Countries

WEBFocusing on Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, Table 2 summarizes the main features of today’s versions of the early-life health policies offered to a general population of …

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Going Beneath the Surface: Petroleum Pollution, Regulation, …

WEBThis paper quantifies the health impacts of petroleum leaks from underground storage tanks, the effectiveness of tank regulation, and the role of …

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Two Improvements on the Clinton Framework

WEB62 Journal of Economic Perspectives employers leave no individual choice in the insurance they provide. Buying medical insurance through a small group or as an individual has …

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Medical Care Spending and Labor Market Outcomes: …

WEBBetween 1995 and 2002, the insurance premiums charged to employers to provide workers’ compensation coverage increased from $5.5 billion to $14.7 billion …

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America’s Continuing Struggle with Mental Illnesses: …

WEBExpenditures on Treatment. Total spending on treatment services for mental illnesses was estimated at $180 billion in 2016 (Dieleman et al. 2020) and projected to be $238 billion …

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Does Diversity Matter for Health

WEBVOL. 109 NO. 12ALSAN ET AL.: DOES DIVERSITY MATTER FOR HEALTH 4101. ratings of the study doctors on the site vitals.com. On a scale of 1 to 5, the average black doctor …

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Evaluating Welfare Reform Waivers Under Section 1115

WEBThe actual research design utilized in any Section 1115-waivered welfare reform evaluation—including issues like sample sizes, methods of drawing the sample, and …

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