The Impact of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-Income Coun... - 9780815705468

The Impact of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-Income CountriesAuthor(s): Maria-Luisa Escobar, Charles C. Griffin, R. Paul Shaw\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Brookings Institution\nISBN-13: 9780815705468, 978-0815705468\nSynopsis\nOver 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.\nColombia embarked in 1993 on a fifteen-year effort to cover its entire population with insurance, in combination with greater freedom to choose among providers. A decade later Mexico followed suit with a program tailored to its federal system. Several African nations have introduced new programs in the past decade, and many are testing options for reform.