Healthcare financing
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How a risk pool spreads the cost of the sick across everyone who pays in
How is universal health care actually funded?
Bundled payments put one price on an entire episode of care
German sickness funds are not the same animal as the British NHS
Capitation pays a doctor per patient rather than per visit and shifts the incentive
Is universal health care affordable for low-income countries?
Health money comes from three places: taxes and premiums and out-of-pocket spending
Moving a country from out-of-pocket payment to pooled financing takes decades
Private insurance inside a universal system works as a supplement or an escape hatch
How insurers set premiums and what a medical loss ratio actually limits
Experience rating lets a small firm's premiums track its own claims history
How low-income countries finance health care without a broad tax base
Cost sharing as a financing tool cuts waste and needed care at the same time
Single payer and multi-payer systems feel different at the reception desk
Taiwan built a single-payer system in a few years and the lessons are specific
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