The Impact of Subsidized Health Insurance on the Poor in Colombia : Evaluating the Case of Medellín through Endogenous Switching Models and Propensity Score Matching for Medical Care Utilization

This paper uses count and binary data models with endogenous switching, and propensity score matching to evaluate the effect of the subsidized health care program in Medellin (Colombia). The subsidized program, which primarily covers poor people, is found to have a negative association with the use of preventive medical care, but no significant impact on hospitalization. Also, parametric specifications indicate that there is neither selection bias nor moral hazard

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Ramirez Hassan, Andres ; Jimenez, Jhonathan ; Montoya, Ramiro
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (23 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments May 25, 2010 erstellt
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.2193826 [DOI]
Classification:	I10 - Health. General ; I18 - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health ; C01 - Econometrics ; C13 - Estimation ; C14 - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods ; C21 - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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