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The Effect of U.S. Health Insurance Expansions on Medical Innovation
Clemens, Jeffrey - 2013
I study the channels through which health insurance influences medical innovation. Following Medicare and Medicaid … per resident. Consistent with historical case studies, Medical innovation's determinants extend beyond the potential … revenues associated with global market size; a physician driven process of innovation-while-doing appears to play a central …
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Dependent Coverage and Parental "Job Lock" : Evidence from the Affordable Care Act
Bae, Hannah; Meckel, Katherine - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandated that private insurance plans extend coverage to adult dependents under the age of 26. We hypothesize that this policy may have had the unintended consequence of increasing "job lock" among parents who would otherwise leave their employer. We use a...
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Under the Same Umbrella : Public Health Insurance Expansions and the Uniformity of Insurance for Families
Hamersma, Sarah; Grossman, Daniel; Tello-Trillo, Sebastian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Evaluating insurance coverage at the individual level abstracts away from the family-level decision making behind healthcare utilization. While traditional private insurance tends to be offered to either adult individuals or whole families, public insurance eligibility is determined...
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Dying or Lying? : For-Profit Hospices and End of Life Care
Gruber, Jonathan; Howard, David H.; Leder-Luis, Jetson; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The Medicare hospice program is intended to provide palliative care to terminal patients, but patients with long stays in hospice are highly profitable, motivating concerns about overuse among the Alzheimer's and Dementia (ADRD) population in the rapidly growing for-profit sector. We provide the...
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Partial Outsourcing of Public Programs : Evidence on Determinants of Choice in Medicare
Cabral, Marika; Carey, Colleen; Son, Jinyeong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Many public programs let individuals choose between publicly provided benefits and a subsidized private alternative. We investigate the determinants of health insurance choice in Medicare--a setting with vast geographic variation in the share of individuals selecting the public option versus...
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Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States : Addressing Market Failures or Providing a Social Floor?
Baicker, Katherine; Chandra, Amitabh; Shepard, Mark - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
additional coverage, policymakers could both expand coverage and maintain incentives for innovation, fostering universal access …
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Adverse Selection and Network Design Under Regulated Plan Prices : Evidence from Medicaid
Kreider, Amanda R.; Layton, Timothy J.; Shepard, Mark; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Health plans for the poor increasingly limit access to specialty hospitals. We investigate the role of adverse selection in generating this equilibrium among private plans in Medicaid. Studying a network change, we find that covering a top cancer hospital causes severe adverse selection,...
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Monitoring for Waste : Evidence from Medicare Audits
Shi, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper examines the tradeoffs of monitoring for wasteful public spending. By penalizing unnecessary spending, monitoring improves the quality of public expenditure and incentivizes firms to invest in compliance technology. I study a large Medicare program that monitored for unnecessary...
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Spillovers in Public Benefit Enrollment : How does Expanding Public Health Insurance for Working-Age Adults affect Future Health Insurance Choices?
Bundorf, M. Kate; McInerney, Melissa; Simon, Kosali … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Enrollment in one public benefit program often affects enrollment in others. We study life-course spillovers by examining how access to publicly subsidized health insurance prior to age 65 affects public benefit choices at the age of Medicare eligibility. We use administrative data to examine...
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Public Health Insurance Expansions and Hospital Technology Adoption
Freedman, Seth - 2014
This paper explores the effects of public health insurance expansions on hospitals' decisions to adopt medical technology. Specifically, we test whether the expansion of Medicaid eligibility for pregnant women during the 1980s and 1990s affects hospitals' decisions to adopt neonatal intensive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458505