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Impact of China's Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance on Health Care Expenditure and Health Outcomes
Huang, Feng - 2015
At the end of 1998, China launched a government-run mandatory insurance program, the Urban Employee Basic Medical … Insurance (UEBMI), to replace the previous medical insurance system. Using the UEBMI reform in China as a natural experiment … the demand for health-care services. Using data from the 1991-2006 waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we find …
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The Impact of Insurance Expansions on the Already Insured : The Affordable Care Act and Medicare
Carey, Colleen M. - 2018
Some states that have not adopted the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansions have stated concerns that the expansions may impair access to care and utilization for those who are already insured. We investigate such negative spillovers using a large panel of Medicare beneficiaries. Across...
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Premium Subsidies, the Mandate, and Medicaid Expansion : Coverage Effects of the Affordable Care Act
Frean, Molly - 2016
the 2012-2015 American Community Survey and a triple-difference estimation strategy that exploits variation by income …
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Impacts of the Affordable Care Act on Health Insurance Coverage in Medicaid Expansion and Non-Expansion States
Courtemanche, Charles - 2016
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) aimed to achieve nearly universal health insurance coverage in the United States through a combination of insurance market reforms, mandates, subsidies, health insurance exchanges, and Medicaid expansions, most of which took effect in 2014. This paper estimates the...
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The Early Impact of the Affordable Care Act State-By-State
Kowalski, Amanda E. - 2014
I examine the impact of state policy decisions on the early impact of the ACA using data through the first half of 2014. I focus on the individual health insurance market, which includes plans purchased through exchanges as well as plans purchased directly from insurers. In this market, at least...
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Wedges, Labor Market Behavior, and Health Insurance Coverage under the Affordable Care Act
Gallen, Trevor S. - 2013
The Affordable Care Act's taxes, subsidies, and regulations significantly alter terms of trade in both goods and factor markets. We use a multi-sector (intra-national) trade model to predict and quantify consequences of the Affordable Care Act for the incidence of health insurance coverage and...
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Is the Affordable Care Act Different from Romneycare? A Labor Economics Perspective
Mulligan, Casey B. - 2013
Measured in percentage points, the Affordable Care Act will, by 2015, add about fourteen times more to average marginal labor income tax rates nationwide than the Massachusetts health reform added to average rates in Massachusetts following its 2006 statewide health reform. The rate impacts are...
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Effects of Federal Policy to Insure Young Adults : Evidence from the 2010 Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Mandate
Antwi, Yaa Akosa - 2012
We study the health insurance and labor market implications of the recent Affordable Care Act (ACA) provision that allows dependents to remain on parental policies until age 26 using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). Our comparison of outcomes for young adults aged...
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The Effect of Public Insurance Expansions on Substance Use Disorder Treatment : Evidence from the Affordable Care Act
Maclean, Johanna Catherine - 2017
We examine Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on substance use disorder (SUD) treatment utilization and financing. We couple administrative data on admissions to specialty SUD treatment and prescriptions for medications used to treat SUDs with a differences-in-differences...
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Beyond Job Lock : Impacts of Public Health Insurance on Occupational and Industrial Mobility
Farooq, Ammar - 2016
We examine whether greater Medicaid generosity encourages mobility towards riskier but better jobs in higher paid occupations and industries. We use Current Population Survey Data and exploit variation in Medicaid thresholds across states and over time through the 1990s and 2000s. We find that...
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