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Health Status, Health Care and Inequality : Canada vs. the U.S
O'Neill, June E. - 2007
Does Canada's publicly funded, single payer health care system deliver better health outcomes and distribute health … of health status using JCUSH (The Joint Canada/U.S. Survey of Health) and other surveys. We find a somewhat higher … incidence of chronic health conditions in the U.S. than in Canada but somewhat greater U.S. access to treatment for these …
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Medicare Part D and its Effect on the Use of Prescription Drugs, Use of Other Health Care Services and Health of the Elderly
Kaestner, Robert - 2010
We examine the effect of gaining prescription drug insurance as a result of Medicare Part D on use of prescription drugs, use of other medical services, and health for a nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries. Given the heightened importance of prescription drugs for those...
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When Does Improving Health Raise GDP?
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2008
We assess quantitatively the effect of exogenous health improvements on output per capita. Our simulation model allows for a direct effect of health on worker productivity, as well as indirect effects that run through schooling, the size and age-structure of the population, capital accumulation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464198
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The Prices in the Crises : What We Are Learning from Twenty Years of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Das, Jishnu; Đỗ-Quý-Toàn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax-funded, subsidized provision of health care through publicly operated facilities. This paper discusses two rationales for this transition. First, health insurance would boost...
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Health Care Centralization : The Health Impacts of Obstetric Unit Closures in the US
Fischer, Stefanie; Royer, Heather; White, Corey D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Over the last few decades, health care services in the United States have become more centralized. We study how the loss of hospital-based obstetric units in over 400 rural counties affect maternal and infant health via a difference-in-differences design. We find that closures lead to...
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Randomized Regulation : The Impact of Minimum Quality Standards on Health Markets
Bedoya, Guadalupe; Das, Jishnu; Dolinger, Amy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We report results from the first randomization of a regulatory reform in the health sector. The reform established minimum quality standards for patient safety, an issue that has become increasingly salient following the Ebola and COVID-19 epidemics. In our experiment, all 1348 health facilities...
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Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Behaviors after Three Years
Courtemanche, Charles - 2018
This paper examines the impacts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) - which substantially increased insurance coverage through regulations, mandates, subsidies, and Medicaid expansions - on behaviors related to future health risks after three years. Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453205
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Impacts of the Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Provision on Health-Related Outcomes of Young Adults
Barbaresco, Silvia - 2014
The first major insurance expansion of the Affordable Care Act - a provision requiring insurers to allow dependents to remain on parents' health insurance until turning 26 - took effect in September 2010. We estimate this mandate's impacts on numerous outcomes related to health care access,...
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Do Insurers Risk-Select Against Each Other? Evidence from Medicaid and Implications for Health Reform
Kuziemko, Ilyana - 2013
Increasingly in U.S. public insurance programs, the state finances and regulates competing, capitated private health plans but does not itself directly insure beneficiaries through a public fee-for-service (FFS) plan. We develop a simple model of risk-selection in such settings. Capitation...
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The Impact of Health Care Reform On Hospital and Preventive Care : Evidence from Massachusetts
Kolstad, Jonathan - 2010
In April 2006, the state of Massachusetts passed legislation aimed at achieving near universal health insurance coverage. A key provision of this legislation, and of the national legislation passed in March 2010, is an individual mandate to obtain health insurance. Although previous researchers...
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