collected to investigate the burden each worker will have to bear in the future in order to finance pension and health care …

"competitive" health insurance markets. I use the insurance choices of senior citizens in the U.S. as an example. I then consider … the issue of whether consumers benefit when we create more choice by letting private firms offer health insurance in … (ii) empirical results show that consumers are very confused about their health insurance options. Thus, I argue …

’ choice of health service providers. However, we have little empirical evidence about the impact of information provided on …

introduction of prescription drug coverage for older individuals via Medicare Part D. For policy makers who design such a market … Medicare Part D. We first analyze how well the hypothetical choice data predict willingness to pay and market shares at the …

Medicare and Social Security, military spending on overseas operations, outsourcing to low minimum wage countries, the effects …

on employment for health insurance, I estimate large job lock and job push effects. For married workers, Medicaid …I study job lock and job push, the twin phenomena believed to be caused by employment-contingent health insurance (ECHI …). Using variation in Medicaid eligibility among household members of male workers as a proxy for shifts in workers’ dependence …

SCHIP enrollments also affect non-Medicaid health spending. Thus, the total costs of insuring these patients are …Medicaid expenditures account for a sizeable proportion of U.S. GDP - $360.3 billion in 2009 or 2.55 percent of GDP … for the Medicaid program. However, there is little literature on the effect on healthcare spending from earlier expansions …

Medicaid coverage of children using state administrative data from Georgia. Our analysis focuses on children enrolled in … Medicaid prior to the reform in the eligibility category for which the reform is most likely to be binding. We find that these …

among two Medicaid managed care plans impacts utilization and spending. We use a quasi-experimental approach exploiting the … timing and county-specific implementation of Medicaid managed care mandates in two contiguous regions of Kentucky. We find …

This paper estimates the impact of the introduction of Medicaid managed care (MMC) on the formal Medicaid participation … increases the likelihood of being uninsured and decreases formal Medicaid participation. This finding is consistent with an … increase in “conditional coverage” – waiting until medical care is needed to sign up or re-enroll in Medicaid. These effects …