Role of private health insurance examined in health care debate
by Mark Schwerin KALAMAZOO–The national insurance program Medicare and the part private health insurance plays in it will come into sharper focus next month when a Stanford University researcher visits Western Michigan University. Dr. M. Kate Bundorf, …
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Who are the chronically costly? Health care's 1%
Most have private insurance, are white and female. They are the costliest 1% of patients in the US Caring for them accounts for more than 20% of what the nation spends on all of its health care. In contrast, the least costly half of all patients are …
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SA health insurance expenditure highest
Private health insurance in South Africa is estimated to contribute 42% to national expenditure, says the People's Health Movement. A tax on resources to be used to set up a sovereign wealth fund are among proposals in a discussion document released by …
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