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New health insurance study results from Michigan State University described
June 15th, 2009
According to recent research published in the International Journal of Health Care Finance & Economics, "When both physicians and pharmacists in Taiwan prescribed and dispensed drugs, many elderly people considered the two types of health care providers more or less synonymous (i.e., close substitutes). Two policies mandated in the 1990s changed this perception: National Health Insurance (NHI), which provides insurance coverage to all citizens, and a separation policy (SP) that forbids physicians from dispensing and pharmacists from prescribing drugs." "The author finds that by providing an economic incentive to the previously uninsured elderly, NHI raised the...
Source: Managed Care Weekly Digest (2009-06-15)
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