Adam Leive

TL;DR: In most African countries, the health financing system is too weak to protect households from health shocks and formal prepayment schemes could benefit many households, and an overall social protection network could help to mitigate the long-term effects of ill health on household well-being and support poverty reduction.

TL;DR: This paper evaluates health financing in developing countries from global- and country-level perspectives and briefly describes the types of reforms needed in the global aid architecture to make effective use of this historic opportunity to improve the plight of the world's poor.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the Medicare Part D prescription drug insurance program as a bellwether for designs of private, non-mandatory health insurance markets, focusing on the ability of consumers to evaluate and optimize their choices of plans.

TL;DR: It is found countries where subnational governments rely primarily on central government financing and enjoy large borrowing autonomy have higher healthcare spending than those with more restrictions on subnational government borrowing.

TL;DR: Work requirements are common in U.S. safety net programs and evidence remains limited on the extent to which work requirements increase economic self-sufficiency or screen out vulnerable individuals as discussed by the authors.