Protection in Good and Bad Times? The Turkish Green Card Health Program
This paper evaluates the equity and financial protection implications of the expansion of the Green Card (Yesil Kart) non-contributory health insurance program in Turkey during the growth years from 2003 to 2008. It also considers the program'...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/08/16627384/protection-good-bad-times-turkish-green-card-health-program http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12024 |
| Summary: | This paper evaluates the equity and
financial protection implications of the expansion of the
Green Card (Yesil Kart) non-contributory health insurance
program in Turkey during the growth years from 2003 to 2008.
It also considers the program's protective impact
during the economic crisis in 2009. The authors find that
the rapid expansion of the program between 2003 and 2008 was
highly progressive. It led to significant gains in coverage
of the poor but offered limited financial protection as
out-of-pocket expenditures even before the introduction of
the program had been limited. Using a specialized welfare
monitoring survey, fielded in 2009, the authors estimate the
impact of the program on household level health care
utilization during the first phase of the economic slowdown
in Turkey. Using three different estimation techniques, they
find that the Green Card program had a significantly
positive impact on protecting health care utilization during
the crisis. |
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