Federal Parity and Access to Behavioral Health Care in Private Health Plans

Survey and Analysis of Ardabil City Suburbs Access to the Health Care Delivery Services (Health Centers)

Background & objectives: Health care centers are among the most important and essential centers that proper and timely access to them is one of the basic goals of social justice. The health of the individual and the community depends on the centers that provide primary health care. Rapid, timely, and inexpensive access to these centers is very important and necessary, in any community, especial...

A Study of Children's Geographic Access to Health Services (Health Care Centers and Clinical Laboratories) in Kermanshah City, Iran

Background Given that the protection of children's health is of special importance due to their special age and physical conditions, the present study aimed to investigate the condition of children's Geographic access to health services (Health Centers and Clinical Laboratories) in Kermanshah city, Iran. Materials and Methods: In this applied study, the research approach was descriptive-analyti...

Private health insurance and access to health care in the European Union

Private or voluntary health insurance (VHI) does not play a significant role in many health systems in the European Union (EU), either in terms of funding or as a means of gaining access to health care. In most EU member states it accounts for less than 5% of total expenditure on health and covers a relatively small proportion of the population (see Table 1). The exceptions to this trend are Fr...

Private Health Insurance Premiums and Federal Policy

Most Americans are covered by private health insurance, which they either obtain through employment or purchase individually. Insurance premiums—the payments made to buy that coverage by enrollees or by other parties on their behalf—are high and rising. The Congressional Budget Office and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) project that in 2016, the average premium for an employm...

Federal panel aims to improve health care.