A History of Voluntary Health Insurance in Wisconsin
Author : Leon Applebaum
Publisher :
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Health insurance
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Author : Leon Applebaum
Publisher :
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Health insurance
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Author : Ann Mary Kelly
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 14,69 MB
Release : 1948
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Author : Linda Gorman
Publisher :
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 43,8 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Health insurance
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Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 49,3 MB
Release : 2002-06-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309083435
Many Americans believe that people who lack health insurance somehow get the care they really need. Care Without Coverage examines the real consequences for adults who lack health insurance. The study presents findings in the areas of prevention and screening, cancer, chronic illness, hospital-based care, and general health status. The committee looked at the consequences of being uninsured for people suffering from cancer, diabetes, HIV infection and AIDS, heart and kidney disease, mental illness, traumatic injuries, and heart attacks. It focused on the roughly 30 million-one in seven-working-age Americans without health insurance. This group does not include the population over 65 that is covered by Medicare or the nearly 10 million children who are uninsured in this country. The main findings of the report are that working-age Americans without health insurance are more likely to receive too little medical care and receive it too late; be sicker and die sooner; and receive poorer care when they are in the hospital, even for acute situations like a motor vehicle crash.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 24,79 MB
Release : 1993-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309048273
The United States is unique among economically advanced nations in its reliance on employers to provide health benefits voluntarily for workers and their families. Although it is well known that this system fails to reach millions of these individuals as well as others who have no connection to the work place, the system has other weaknesses. It also has many advantages. Because most proposals for health care reform assume some continued role for employers, this book makes an important contribution by describing the strength and limitations of the current system of employment-based health benefits. It provides the data and analysis needed to understand the historical, social, and economic dynamics that have shaped present-day arrangements and outlines what might be done to overcome some of the access, value, and equity problems associated with current employer, insurer, and government policies and practices. Health insurance terminology is often perplexing, and this volume defines essential concepts clearly and carefully. Using an array of primary sources, it provides a store of information on who is covered for what services at what costs, on how programs vary by employer size and industry, and on what governments doâ€"and do not doâ€"to oversee employment-based health programs. A case study adapted from real organizations' experiences illustrates some of the practical challenges in designing, managing, and revising benefit programs. The sometimes unintended and unwanted consequences of employer practices for workers and health care providers are explored. Understanding the concepts of risk, biased risk selection, and risk segmentation is fundamental to sound health care reform. This volume thoroughly examines these key concepts and how they complicate efforts to achieve efficiency and equity in health coverage and health care. With health care reform at the forefront of public attention, this volume will be important to policymakers and regulators, employee benefit managers and other executives, trade associations, and decisionmakers in the health insurance industry, as well as analysts, researchers, and students of health policy.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 32,52 MB
Release : 2002-09-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309169054
Health Insurance is a Family Matter is the third of a series of six reports on the problems of uninsurance in the United Sates and addresses the impact on the family of not having health insurance. The book demonstrates that having one or more uninsured members in a family can have adverse consequences for everyone in the household and that the financial, physical, and emotional well-being of all members of a family may be adversely affected if any family member lacks coverage. It concludes with the finding that uninsured children have worse access to and use fewer health care services than children with insurance, including important preventive services that can have beneficial long-term effects.
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Page : 344 pages
File Size : 25,57 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Best books
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Author : Jonathon Erlen
Publisher : Scholarly Title
Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 36,8 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Medical
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5004 entries to selected monographic and serial literature that guide the reader through the history of science and technology. International subject coverage. Introduction discusses sources of references. Arrangement is by MeSH (1980) subject headings. An asterisk indicates an academic thesis or dissertation. Each entry gives the bibliographical information and brief annotation. Index.
Author : Morris J. Vogel
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,9 MB
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1512819158
This book is not about one glorious triumph after another, nor is it a series of complaints about doctors and hospitals. Rather, these essays examine American medicine within its context, sensitive to the role of medical knowledge, practitioners, and institutions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The selections not only cover general considerations of the social and cultural context in which American medicine developed but also analyze the relationship between science and medicine, the development of mental hospitals, nursing, and health insurance.
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Page : 1292 pages
File Size : 38,38 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Insurance
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