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Public Health Insurance and Medical Spending : Evidence from the ACA Medicaid Expansion
Shupe, Cortnie - 2021
This paper investigates the short-run impact of public insurance expansion under the Affordable Care Act on out-of-pocket medical spending (OOP) and risk exposure among low-income, eligible households as well as the incidence of the cost of providing insurance. Using data from the Medical...
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Coinsurance vs. Copayments : Reimbursement Rules for a Monopolistic Medical Product with Competitive Health Insurers
Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie - 2021
This paper studies a market for a medical product in which there is perfect competition among health insurers, while the good is sold by a monopolist. Individuals differ in their severity of illness and there is ex post moral hazard. We consider two regimes: one in which insurers use coinsurance...
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Supplementary private health insurance in selected countries : lessons for EU governments?
Gechert, Sebastian - 2009
A famous idea to maintain affordable health expenditures is to cut back statutory health insurance (SHI) to a basic insurance and to introduce supplementary private health insurance (PHI), permitted to cover the remaining benefits and to apply managed care mechanisms. The measure is supposed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266017
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Do Health Insurance Mandates Spillover to Education? Evidence from Michigan's Autism Insurance Mandate
Acton, Riley K. - 2019
Social programs and mandates are usually studied in isolation, but interaction effects could create spillovers to other public goods. We examine how health insurance coverage affects the education of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in the context of state-mandated private therapy...
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Long-Term Care Partnership Effects on Medicaid and Private Insurance
Costa-Font, Joan; Raut, Nilesh - 2021
Can the expansion of Medicaid, a means-tested health and long-term care insurance, be slowed down by incentivising the purchase of private long-term care insurance (LTCI)? We study the implementation of the long-term care insurance partnership (LTCIP) program, a joint federal and state-level...
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The politician and his banker
Hainz, Christa; Hakenes, Hendrik - 2007
their creditworthiness and compare different types of subsidies with indirect subsidization through public banks. We find … that, in a large parameter range, the politician prefers public banks to direct subsidies because they avoid windfall gains … subsidies. One important prerequisite for this result is that public banks must not be allowed to fully compete with private …
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Emissions taxes and abatement regulation under uncertainty
Christiansen, Vidar; Smith, Stephen - 2013
We consider environmental regulation in a context where firms invest in abatement technology under conditions of … investment subsidy. We compare the properties of the two potential supplements to the emissions tax. …
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Health values, preference inconsistency, and insurance demand
Wrede, Matthias - 2005
Several empirical studies provide evidence that their actual health state affects people's attitudes towards health and medical care in hypothetical health states. In the tradition of behavioural economics this paper considers the actual health state as a point of reference and builds a model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261396
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Does Public Policy Affect Attitudes? Evidence from Age-Based Health Insurance Coverage Policies in the United States
Yörük, Barış - 2022
The existing literature provides evidence that public opinion and attitudes often affect public policy. However, little is known on how public policy might affect public attitudes and norms. I present new evidence on this topic by using age-based health insurance policies in the United States as...
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Who Increases Emergency Department Use? New Insights from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment
Denteh, Augustine; Liebert, Helge - 2022
We provide new insights regarding the finding that Medicaid increased emergency department (ED) use from the Oregon experiment. We find meaningful heterogeneous impacts of Medicaid on ED use using causal machine learning methods. The treatment effect distribution is widely dispersed, and the...
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