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Effects of the 2010 Affordable Care Act Dependent Care Provision on Military Participation among Young Adults
Chatterji, Pinka; Liu, Xiangshi; Yörük, Baris K. - 2018
In this study, we test whether the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) dependent care provision is associated with young adults …, comparing the outcomes of young adults targeted by the policy change (ages 23-25 years old) before and after the ACA was passed … indicate that the ACA dependent care provision is associated with statistically significant reduction in the likelihood that …
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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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The Effects of the 2010 Affordable Care Act Dependent Care Provision on Family Structure and Public Program Participation Among Young Adults
Chatterji, Pinka - 2018
whether the ACA dependent care provision is associated with family structure and public program participation among young …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908653
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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...
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Nonlinear Reimbursement Rules for Preventive and Curative Medical Care
Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie - 2024
We study the design of nonlinear reimbursement rules for expenses on secondary preventive and on therapeutic care. With some probability individuals are healthy and do not need any therapeutic health care. Otherwise they become ill and the severity of their disease is realized and identifies...
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Price Regulation and Parallel Imports of Pharmaceuticals
Brekke, Kurt R.; Holmås, Tor Helge; Straume, Odd Rune - 2015
This paper studies the effects of price regulation and parallel imports in the on-patent pharmaceutical market. In a theory model where the producer price is subject to bargaining between the brand-name producer and a distributor, we show that the effects of stricter price regulation crucially...
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Patient Mobility, Health Care Quality and Welfare
Brekke, Kurt R.; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - 2014
Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients’ right to EU-wide provider choice. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility on health care quality, health care financing and...
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Heterogeneous Effects of a Nonlinear Price Schedule for Outpatient Care
Farbmacher, Helmut; Ihle, Peter; Schubert, Ingrid; … - 2013
Theoretical considerations suggest that nonlinear health care price schedules have heterogeneous effects on health care demand. In this paper, we develop and apply a finite mixture bivariate probit model to analyze whether there are heterogeneous reactions to the introduction of a nonlinear...
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Efficiency-Morality Trade-Offs in Repugnant Transactions: A Choice Experiment
Elias, Julio; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2016
Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors. Preferences were heterogeneous, ranging from...
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Using Fees to Reduce Bed-Blocking: A Game between Hospitals and Care Providers
Kverndokk, Snorre; Melberg, Hans Olav - 2016
The Coordination Reform was introduced in Norway in 2012 including a fee for bed-blocking in hospitals. To study this, we introduce a Stackelberg game where the hospital is the leader and the care institution is the follower. The reform does not necessarily lead to less bed-blocking as this...
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