Georgia’s Medical Insurance Program for the Poor

Georgia launched its Medical Insurance Program (MIP) for the poor in 2006. This program draws from general tax revenues to provide comprehensive, means-tested health insurance to the poorest 20 percent of the population as identified by a proxy means test. The government contracts private insurance...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Smith, Owen
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington DC 2013
Subjects:	access to services administrative costs Adult mortality Adult mortality rate aged agents applications Beneficiaries capitation cardiovascular disease chemotherapy child delivery child health civil conflict Communicable diseases community participation competitive bidding contraception Contraceptive prevalence contracts with providers cost-effectiveness costs of care delivery costs delivery of health care Dependency ratio depression developing countries diabetes disease risk factors doctors economic growth emergency care employment essential drugs fee-for-service fertility fertility rate finance management Financial Management financial protection financial risk financial risks fraud government support gross domestic product group insurance health behavior health care health care resources health care services health care utilization Health Coverage Health Economics health expenditure health expenditures Health Financing health indicators health insurance health maintenance health maintenance organization health maintenance organizations health outcomes Health Policy health promotion health reform health sector health services health spending health status Health System Health System Financing health system strengthening health systems Health Systems in Transition health workers healthcare services high blood pressure HIV/AIDS HMO HMOs hospital hospital beds hospital system hospitalization hospitals ill health illnesses immunization impact on health income income countries Infant Infant mortality Infant mortality rate infectious diseases informal payments inpatient care Insurance Insurance Companies insurance industry insurance markets integration lab tests life expectancy Life expectancy at birth live births living conditions loss ratio marketing Maternal mortality Maternal mortality rate Medical care Medical care costs Medical Insurance medical services mental mental health mental health care midwives Ministry of Health minority monthly premium morbidity mortality multiple insurance systems multiple insurers national government Neonatal mortality Nurses outpatient care outpatient services patient Patients pensions pharmaceutical spending pharmacies pharmacy physician physicians pocket payment pocket payments Policy Implications population groups pregnant women prenatal care prices of health services primary care primary care doctor primary care doctors primary health care Private Health Insurance Private Insurance Private Insurance Companies private insurer private insurers programs progress provider payment provision of care psychiatry Public Expenditure public health Public health expenditure public health system public hospitals public providers purchasing power quality of care radiation reimbursement rates respect risk factors rural areas safety net sanitation sanitation facilities service delivery service provision Skilled birth attendance Social Affairs Social Assistance social sector Social Services surgery Tuberculosis universal access urban development woman workers working-age population
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13282