Germany is one of the few OECD countries with a two-tier system of statutory and primary private health insurance. Both types of insurance provide fee-for-service insurance, but chargeable fees for identical services are more than twice as large for privately insured patients than for statutorily insured patients. This price variation creates incentives to induce demand primarily among the priv...

Adults with pediatric-onset medical conditions (POMCs) are susceptible to early development of high-burden medical conditions. However, research pertaining to this topic is lacking, which is vital information that could assist in health benefit planning and administration. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of high-burden medical conditions among privately and publicly in...

There is continuing controversy about the extent to which publicly insured children are treated differently than privately insured children, and whether differences in treatment matter. We show that on average, hospitals are less likely to admit publicly insured children than privately insured children who present at the ER and the gap grows during high flu weeks, when hospital beds are in high...

BACKGROUND Publicly insured women usually have a different demographic background to privately insured women, which is related to poor neonatal outcomes after birth. Given the difference in nature and risk of preterm versus term births, it would be important to compare adverse neonatal outcomes after preterm birth between these groups of women after eliminating the demographic differences betwe...

BACKGROUND Differences in antibiotic knowledge and attitudes between parents of Medicaid-insured and commercially insured children have been previously reported. It is unknown whether understanding has improved and whether previously identified differences persist. METHODS A total of 1500 Massachusetts parents with a child <6 years old insured by a Medicaid managed care or commercial health p...

BACKGROUND Health insurance is a social security system that aims to facilitate fair financing of health costs through pooling and judicious utilization of financial resources, in order to provide financial risk protections and cost burden sharing for people against high cost of healthcare through various prepayment methods prior to falling ill. It is still unclear how the Federal Social Health...

CONTEXT Given the large and increasing number of uninsured US individuals, identifying the health consequences of being uninsured has assumed increased importance. OBJECTIVE To compare medical care use and short-term health changes among US uninsured individuals and insured nonelderly individuals following a health shock caused by either an unintentional injury or the onset of a chronic condi...

Agriculture sector faces natural, social and economic risks resulting from its production structure. One of the strategies to be used transfer such is agricultural insurance. It was aimed in present study estimate demand farmers for cattle insurance (CI) determine effective factors which can increase share premium CI total TRA1 Region. Data were obtained 122 farms determined using proportional ...

introductions: due to versatility and wide range of health care services, the social care insurance organizations can not afford undertaking all health care services for the insured. this is why additional services are taken over by private or commercial health care insurance companies. such services are known as complementary insurance. in this study , it was decided to investigate the satisfa...