Health insurance

At present, human society is facing a health care crisis that is affecting patients worldwide. In the United States, it is generally believed that the major problem is lack of affordable access to health care (i.e. health insurance). This book takes an unprecedented approach to address this issue by proposing that the major problem is not lack of affordable access to health care per se, but lack of access to better, safer, and more affordable medicines.

Over the past twenty years, many low- and middle-income countries have experimented with health insurance options. While their plans have varied widely in scale and ambition, their goals are the same: to make health services more affordable through the use of public subsidies while also moving care providers partially or fully into competitive markets.

You often hear owners and directors of businesses say that health & safety is a luxury they can’t afford. Their insurance brokers would probably argue that they can’t afford not to have compliant health & safety policies and procedures in place...

Protection and health insurance are holding up well in the downturn. Edmund Tirbutt looks at fact and figures...