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Avoiding conflict makes violence more likely.

PM-JAY, India’s national health insurance program, is the largest publicly funded health insurance program in the world. It has reformed the way in which the poor and vulnerable access hospital care in India. The size of this program and the inclusion of private providers in delivering care has led to the implementation of a provider case-based payments scheme. Case-based payments are widely used throughout the world as a means of paying both individual and institutional health care providers in a manner that incentivizes efficiency relative to fee-for-service payment or traditional indemnit...

The 5.1 percent reduction in Medicare payments scheduled to begin in January 2007 could lead many physicians to stop accepting new Medicare patients, to defer investments in new equipment and technol­ogy, or both. These problems are merely symptoms of a deeper pathology within Medicare and highlight the need for Congress to adopt comprehensive Medicare reform. Without congressional action to reform this profoundly flawed system, America's seniors could face a decline in access to high-quality health care.

Only civil service retirees are escaping the cuts coming to China’s complex health system as it emerges from three years of pandemic spending

William Hsiao, K.T. Li professor of economics emeritus in the department of health policy and management and department of global health and population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, a…