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Managing Employee Health Care Costs : A Collection of Articles from WorldatWork
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ISBN: 1579632645 Year: 2007 Publisher: Scottsdale : WorldatWork Press,

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With continued health care cost increases, many organizations are finding it difficult to provide competitive and affordable employee benefit plans, while still attracting and retaining talent. Through a compilation of articles, this book showcases numerous options to consider in your benefit plan design to help control employee health care costs. This convenient one-source guide provides new ideas from practitioners in the field on how they are managing the escalating employee health care costs.


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Taxing Tobacco in Georgia : Welfare and Distributional Gains of Smoking Cessation
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,

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This paper analyzes the welfare and distributional impacts of increasing taxes on cigarettes in Georgia. Increasing taxes on tobacco is an effective measure to reduce smoking. According to some estimates, increasing tobacco taxes could save more than GEL 3.6 billion and 53 thousand lives over a 15-year period. However, concerns over potentially regressive effects on the poor are often raised. An Extended Cost Benefit Analysis (ECBA) is applied to simulate the welfare and distributional impacts of raising prices on cigarettes. Decile-specific price elasticities of demand are estimated to account for heterogenous behavioral responses of different income groups. Empirical estimations confirm that poorer households in Georgia tend to reduce consumption more intensely when faced with higher tobacco prices. The estimated magnitude and distribution of elasticities are comparable to peer countries. The simulations based on household survey data suggest that the long-term net distributional effects of increasing taxes on cigarettes in Georgia are likely progressive. Incorporating the indirect benefits of reduced smoking - reductions in medical expenses and earnings from adverted premature deaths - could bring small, albeit positive, income gains for large sectors of the population. The magnitude of those benefits is most significant among lower-income households, potentially contributing to lift them out of poverty.


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Health Care Financing Review

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Finance --- Delivery of Health Care --- Financing, Government. --- Health Care Costs. --- Research Support. --- Medical care --- Medical care, Cost of --- Soins médicaux --- economics. --- Periodicals. --- Finances --- Périodiques --- Coût --- United States. --- Medical care, Cost of. --- Gezondheidszorg. --- Financiering. --- Finance. --- Research Support as Topic. --- Grants and Subsidies, Research --- Subsidies, Research --- Research Subsidies --- Research Subsidy --- Subsidy, Research --- Education --- Costs, Medical Care --- Health Costs --- Healthcare Costs --- Medical Care Costs --- Treatment Costs --- Cost, Health --- Cost, Health Care --- Cost, Healthcare --- Cost, Medical Care --- Cost, Treatment --- Costs, Health --- Costs, Health Care --- Costs, Healthcare --- Costs, Treatment --- Health Care Cost --- Health Cost --- Healthcare Cost --- Medical Care Cost --- Treatment Cost --- Health Expenditures --- Government Financing --- Federal Aid --- Financing, Public --- Grants and Subsidies, Government --- Hill-Burton Act --- Subsidies, Government --- Act, Hill-Burton --- Aid, Federal --- Aids, Federal --- Federal Aids --- Government Subsidies --- Government Subsidy --- Hill Burton Act --- Public Financing --- Subsidy, Government --- Periodicals --- Health Sciences --- Law --- Social Sciences --- Public health --- Insurance Law --- General and Others --- Public Policy & Administration --- Financing, Government --- Health Care Costs --- Research Support as Topic --- economics


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International journal of health care finance and economics.
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ISSN: 15736962 13896563 Year: 2001 Publisher: The Netherlands : The Netherlands : Kluwer Academic Publishers, Springer Science + Business Media


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Health Economics Review
ISSN: 21911991

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Applied health economics and health policy
ISSN: 11791896 11755652

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Medical economics --- Medical policy --- Economics, Medical. --- Health Care Costs. --- Health Policy. --- Medical economics. --- Medical policy. --- Gesundheitsökonomik. --- Business, Economy and Management --- Economics --- Health care policy --- Health policy --- Medicine and state --- Policy, Medical --- Public health --- Public health policy --- State and medicine --- Economics, Medical --- Health --- Health economics --- Hygiene --- Medical care --- Medicine --- National Health Policy --- Health Policies --- Health Policies, National --- Health Policy, National --- National Health Policies --- Policies, Health --- Policies, National Health --- Policy, Health --- Policy, National Health --- Costs, Medical Care --- Health Costs --- Healthcare Costs --- Medical Care Costs --- Treatment Costs --- Cost, Health --- Cost, Health Care --- Cost, Healthcare --- Cost, Medical Care --- Cost, Treatment --- Costs, Health --- Costs, Health Care --- Costs, Healthcare --- Costs, Treatment --- Health Care Cost --- Health Cost --- Healthcare Cost --- Medical Care Cost --- Treatment Cost --- Medical Economics --- Political aspects --- Government policy --- Economic aspects --- economics --- Science and state --- Social policy --- Policy Making --- Health Expenditures --- Law and legislation --- Periodicals --- Healthcare Policy --- Healthcare Policies --- Policy, Healthcare --- Health Care Policies --- Care Policies, Health --- Health Care Policy --- Policies, Health Care --- Policies, Healthcare --- Policy, Health Care


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Creating evidence for better health financing decisions : a strategic guide for the institutionalization of national health accounts
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ISBN: 082139469X 9786613693303 0821394703 1280782919 Year: 2012 Publisher: Washington DC : World Bank,

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Any analysis of health financing issues has to begin with sound estimates of the level and flow of resources in a health system, including total levels of spending, the sources of health expenditures, the uses of funds in terms of services purchased, and in terms of who purchases them. The analysis should also aim at understanding how these resource flows are correlated with health system outcomes, including those of improving health, reducing health inequalities, and reducing the incidence of catastrophic health expenditure. National Health Accounts (NHA) provide a framework to collect,


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Priced Out
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ISBN: 0691192618 9780691192611 0691192170 9780691192178 Year: 2019 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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“Uwe Reinhardt was a towering figure and moral conscience of health care policy in the United States and beyond. Famously bipartisan, he advised presidents and Congress on health reform and originated central features of the Affordable Care Act. In Priced Out, Reinhardt offers an engaging and enlightening account of today’s U.S. health care system, explaining why it costs so much more and delivers so much less than the systems of every other advanced country, why this situation is morally indefensible, and how we might improve it. The problem, Reinhardt says, is not one of economics but of social ethics. There is no American political consensus on a fundamental question other countries settled long ago: to what extent should we be our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers when it comes to health care? Drawing on the best evidence, he guides readers through the chaotic, secretive, and inefficient way America finances health care, and he offers a penetrating ethical analysis of recent reform proposals. At this point, he argues, the United States appears to have three stark choices: the government can make the rich help pay for the health care of the poor, ration care by income, or control costs. Reinhardt proposes an alternative path: that by age 26 all Americans must choose either to join an insurance arrangement with community-rated premiums, or take a chance on being uninsured or relying on a health insurance market that charges premiums based on health status. An incisive look at the American health care system, Priced Out dispels the confusion, ignorance, myths, and misinformation that hinder effective reform.” – Publisher’s description.


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Too old for health care? : controversies in medicine, law, economics, and ethics
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ISBN: 0801842484 Year: 1991 Volume: vol *9 Publisher: Baltimore London Johns Hopkins University Press

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Geriatrics --- Sociology of health --- Professional ethics. Deontology --- Age group sociology --- Social policy and particular groups --- Aged. --- Ethics, Medical. --- Health Care Costs. --- Health Care Rationing --- Health Services for the Aged --- Public Policy. --- Socioeconomic Factors. --- #GBIB:CBMER --- Factors, Socioeconomic --- High-Income Population --- Inequalities --- Land Tenure --- Standard of Living --- Factor, Socioeconomic --- High Income Population --- High-Income Populations --- Inequality --- Living Standard --- Living Standards --- Population, High-Income --- Populations, High-Income --- Socioeconomic Factor --- Tenure, Land --- Economics --- Migration Policy --- Population Policy --- Social Protection --- Social Policy --- Migration Policies --- Policies, Migration --- Policies, Population --- Policies, Public --- Policies, Social --- Policy, Migration --- Policy, Population --- Policy, Public --- Policy, Social --- Population Policies --- Protection, Social --- Public Policies --- Social Policies --- Policy Making --- Social Control, Formal --- Costs, Medical Care --- Health Costs --- Healthcare Costs --- Medical Care Costs --- Treatment Costs --- Cost, Health --- Cost, Health Care --- Cost, Healthcare --- Cost, Medical Care --- Cost, Treatment --- Costs, Health --- Costs, Health Care --- Costs, Healthcare --- Costs, Treatment --- Health Care Cost --- Health Cost --- Healthcare Cost --- Medical Care Cost --- Treatment Cost --- Health Expenditures --- Medical Ethics --- Medicine --- Professionalism --- Bioethics --- Elderly --- Longevity --- economics. --- ethics --- United States. --- Medical care, Cost of --- Medical ethics --- Older people --- Aged --- Ethics, Medical --- Health Care Costs --- Public Policy --- Socioeconomic Factors --- Medical care --- economics --- United States --- Medical care [Cost of ] --- Aged - Medical care - United States. --- Medical ethics - United States. --- Medical care, Cost of - United States. --- Affirmative Action --- Action, Affirmative --- Social Inequalities --- Social Inequality --- Inequalities, Social --- Inequality, Social --- Economic and Social Factors --- Social and Economic Factors --- Socioeconomic Characteristics --- Characteristic, Socioeconomic --- Socioeconomic Characteristic

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