The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was designed to (1) decrease the number of uninsured Americans, (2) make health insurance and health care affordable, and (3) improve health outcomes and performance of the health care system. During the design of ACA, children in general and children and youth with special health care needs and disabilities (CYSHCN) were not a priority becau...

Ireland's private health insurance market provides primarily supplementary health insurance for hospital services, operating alongside a public hospital system to which residents have universal access entitlements, subject to some copayments for those without a medical card. The State subsidises the purchase of private health insurance through measures including tax relief on premiums and not c...

BACKGROUND More than 9% of Wisconsin residents are without health insurance. Several states have passed legislation to increase access to health care and move toward universal coverage. Wisconsin legislators are also considering health care reform proposals that present alternatives to the current system. OBJECTIVE To describe experiences and concerns of individuals who are uninsured as compa...

a School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Correspondence to Shanlian Hu (e-mail: [email protected]). doi:10.2471/BLT.08.060046 Universal coverage of health services is required to ensure social equity and justice, particularly for China, which is a developing country with an enormous population. Since the 1980s, the Chinese health system has not been performing well. The...

BACKGROUND Achieving universal health insurance coverage by means of different types of insurance programs may be a pragmatic and feasible approach. However, the fragmentation of the health financing system may imply costs in terms of varying ability of the insurance programs to improve access to and reduce spending on care across different population groups. This study looks at the effect of d...

unsustainability and precarious conditions of agricultural production have caused this sector be associated with risk . crops insurance is efficient tool for controlling and reducing production and market risk and stabilizing farmers' income. in this study, the thinking system approach by using of i think software is used for analyzing and modeling of the effects of different alternatives of po...

The 2010 federal health insurance reform act includes an individual mandate that will require Americans to carry health insurance. This article argues that even if the mandate were to catalyze universal health insurance coverage, it will fall short on some of the policy objectives many hope to achieve through a mandate if implemented in a fragmented insurance market. To uncover this problem, th...

one of the most challenging problems in our country insurance industry is the phenomenon of increase of loss pay average time by insurance companies. a lot of research and analysis have been conducted on both the roots and possible solutions for this problem, none of which has had success in annihilating it. this paper presents a discrete model ) nonlinear mathematical model ( of insurance serv...