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 …

In a world economy that is highly integrated, most policies produce effects across the border. This is often believed … public good (GPG) and the second under "beggar-thy-neighbor" (BTN) policies. However, the world economy is not a global …

There are ongoing debates around the world over the value of private supplements to public health insurance systems. We … investigate this issue in the context of one of the world's deadliest diseases, diabetes, and one of the countries with the worst … diabetes problems in the world, Mexico. We implement a novel deniers randomization approach to cost-effectively provide a …

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 …