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More Nigerians should be encouraged to have health insurance to reduce the burden of treating facial injuries.
The Affordable Care Act has allowed many preventive health services, including cancer screenings and vaccines, to be free of charge. But legal challenges may lead to costly repercussions for patients.
Often the main differences among plans involve a long list of varying deductibles, co-pays and other out-of-pocket expenses, which can be tough to analyze.
Young people don’t see the value in private health insurance and are dropping their cover in droves. Allowing under 55s to pay lower premiums, based on their lower risk, could keep them in the system.
Whether a 10% discount is enough to increase health insurance take-up by young people, many of whom are in precarious employment arrangements or unemployed, is a question for the marketeers.
Principales colaboradores
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Director, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University
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Assistant Professor of Health Law, Policy and Management, Boston University
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Associate Professor of Economics, University of Dayton
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Dayton
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Research Fellow, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University
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Assistant Professor of Health Economics, University of Toronto
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Lecturer and Consultant in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Obafemi Awolowo University
