This study examines the effect of a Medicaid disenrollment on employment, sources of health insurance coverage, health …, and health care utilization of childless adults using longitudinal data from the 2004 Panel of the Survey of Income and … disenrollment. Self-reported health and access to medical care worsened as hospitalization rates, doctor visits, and dentist visits …

care models of health insurance in wealthy countries, Colombia's Régimen Subsidiado is a publicly financed insurance … financial risk while increasing the use of traditionally under-utilized preventive services - with measurable health gains …

This paper investigates the effects of expanding public health insurance eligibility for older children. Using data … from the National Health Interview Surveys from 1986 to 2005, we first show that although income continues to be an … important predictor of children's health status, the importance of income for predicting health has fallen for children 9 to 17 …

We study how the trajectory of health for the near-elderly uninsured changes upon enrolling into Medicare at the age of … 65. We find that Medicare increases the probability of the previously uninsured having excellent or very good health …, decreases their probability of being in good health, and has no discernable effects at lower health levels. Surprisingly, we …

We use the increases in health insurance coverage at age 65 generated by the rules of the Medicare program to evaluate … the effects of health insurance coverage on health related behaviors and outcomes. The rise in overall coverage at age 65 …. Finally, there are small impacts of reaching age 65 on self-reported health, with the largest gains among the groups that …

The purpose of this paper is to examine issues related to the coverage of preventive care under national health … covered under national health insurance, and if so what is the nature of the optimal plan. Our review of the literature on the … effects of medical care on health outcomes suggests that prenatal care and dental care are effective, but pediatric care …

We study regulations on the health insurance system for working-age U.S. households, consisting of employer …-sponsored health insurance (ESHI), individual health insurance exchange (HIX), and Medicaid. We develop and estimate an equilibrium … various components of the health insurance system as well as their relationship with the labor market. We estimate the model …

Prices negotiated between payers and providers affect a health insurance contract's value via enrollees' cost …

This paper studies government and private marketing activities in the context of the Affordable Care Act health …