Buchmueller, Thomas C.; DiNardo, John; Valletta, Robert G. - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2009
declining health insurance coverage. In this paper we examine the long term effects of the only employer health insurance … mandate that has ever been enforced in the United States, Hawaii's Prepaid Health Care Act, using a standard supply … Hawaii and other states increased, as did real health insurance costs, implying a rising burden of the mandate on Hawaii …