The retail clinic is an innovation that has the potential to improve competition in health care markets. Given concern … about inefficient use of the emergency room (ER) increasing health care costs, we use all ER visits in New Jersey from 2006 …

This paper investigates the effects of expanding public health insurance eligibility for older children. Using data … from the National Health Interview Surveys from 1986 to 2005, we first show that although income continues to be an … important predictor of children's health status, the importance of income for predicting health has fallen for children 9 to 17 …

Hill-Burton Act. We examine delivery care and the health of newborns using the universe of Florida births from 1989 … patient characteristics, they provided less intensive maternity services but without compromising patient health. When …. There they received more intensive services, but did not experience improvements in health. These results suggest that …

health insurance coverage. The size of this effect is similar for both the privately insured and those with Medicaid coverage …, suggesting that even black urban children with private health insurance may have difficulty obtaining access to preventative care …