In 2006, Massachusetts passed health care reform legislation designed to achieve nearly universal coverage through a … from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we provide evidence that health care reform in Massachusetts led to … better overall self-assessed health. Various robustness checks and placebo tests support a causal interpretation of the …

health improvements, which we estimate at 1.82 years of quality-adjusted life. However, these were roughly offset by … health by way of behavioral improvements and public health are possible …

There are ongoing debates around the world over the value of private supplements to public health insurance systems. We … causal estimate of enrollment in private supplement to the free public health system. Our final sample of more than 1000 … improved treatment compliance and health behaviors, and that diabetes complications fall even in the short run. The net costs …

The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of the Community Health Center (CHC) on health levels in the U.S. Using … infant mortality as the underlying health indicator, a time series of large counties as the data set, and multivariate … reduction in the excess mortality rate of black babies has been dentfied as a goal of public health policy for a number of years …

This paper reviews the public sector role in the provision of health care. A first role of the government is to use tax … correct distortions in markets for medical care and health insurance. Markets for health insurance have traditionally not …

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 fiscal revenues for health care, as post-treatment out-of-pocket payments to providers …

seeking behavior during a public health crisis. This paper evaluates the effect of COVID-19 vaccination on the individual … vaccines for their parents, indicating the presence of a positive health spillover within households that extends beyond … coronavirus, but also safeguarding against the worsening of health due to delayed or foregone medical care. The decline in delayed …

We examine the effects of the State Innovation Models (SIM) on population-level health status. The SIM initiative … Surveillance System for the years 2010 -- 2016 to compare health of the populations in 6 SIM states to 15 states that were not … involved in any aspects of SIM. We examine changes in health using an event study design. We develop a Latent Class Profile …