Repercusiones de “ObamaCare” para la reforma sanitaria en Chile

Health care raises structural issues in a democratic society, such as the role assigned to the central government in the management of health risk and the redistributive consequences generated by the implementation of social insurance. These are often cause of strong political controversy. This pape...

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Autor principal: Allard Soto,Raúl
Lenguaje:Spanish / Castilian
Publicado: Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2019
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spelling oai:scielo:S0034-988720190001001032019-04-03Repercusiones de “ObamaCare” para la reforma sanitaria en ChileAllard Soto,Raúl Chile Insurance, Health Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Universal Health Insurance United States Health care raises structural issues in a democratic society, such as the role assigned to the central government in the management of health risk and the redistributive consequences generated by the implementation of social insurance. These are often cause of strong political controversy. This paper examines the United States of America health reform, popularly known as “ObamaCare”. Its three main elements, namely individual mandate, creation of new health insurance exchanges, and the expansion of Medicaid, generated a redistribution of health risks in the insurance market of that country after almost a century of frustrated legislative efforts to guarantee minimum universal coverage. The article proposes that a change of this magnitude in the United States will produce effects in a forthcoming parliamentary discussion on the health reform in Chile, which still maintains a highly deregulated private health system.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.147 n.1 20192019-01-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872019000100103es10.4067/S0034-98872019000100103
institution Scielo Chile
collection Scielo Chile
language Spanish / Castilian
topic Chile
Insurance, Health
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Universal Health Insurance
United States
spellingShingle Chile
Insurance, Health
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Universal Health Insurance
United States
Allard Soto,Raúl
Repercusiones de “ObamaCare” para la reforma sanitaria en Chile
description Health care raises structural issues in a democratic society, such as the role assigned to the central government in the management of health risk and the redistributive consequences generated by the implementation of social insurance. These are often cause of strong political controversy. This paper examines the United States of America health reform, popularly known as “ObamaCare”. Its three main elements, namely individual mandate, creation of new health insurance exchanges, and the expansion of Medicaid, generated a redistribution of health risks in the insurance market of that country after almost a century of frustrated legislative efforts to guarantee minimum universal coverage. The article proposes that a change of this magnitude in the United States will produce effects in a forthcoming parliamentary discussion on the health reform in Chile, which still maintains a highly deregulated private health system.
author Allard Soto,Raúl
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title Repercusiones de “ObamaCare” para la reforma sanitaria en Chile
title_short Repercusiones de “ObamaCare” para la reforma sanitaria en Chile
title_full Repercusiones de “ObamaCare” para la reforma sanitaria en Chile
title_fullStr Repercusiones de “ObamaCare” para la reforma sanitaria en Chile
title_full_unstemmed Repercusiones de “ObamaCare” para la reforma sanitaria en Chile
title_sort repercusiones de “obamacare” para la reforma sanitaria en chile
publisher Sociedad Médica de Santiago
publishDate 2019
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