Kuklik, Michal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Abstract Medical bankruptcy was at the heart of the health care reform debate. According to Himmelstein et al. (2009 … bankruptcy rate. We find that (i) the reform fails to address the bankruptcy problem as it cuts the bankruptcy rate by only 0 ….06 percentage point to 0.94 percent and the medical bankruptcy rate by 0.07 percentage point to 0.70 percent; (ii) the reform …