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Financing and funding health care : optimal policy and political implementability
Nuscheler, Robert; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014
Health care financing and funding are usually analyzed in isolation. This paper combines the corresponding strands of the literature and thereby advances our understanding of the important interaction between them. We investigate the impact of three modes of health care financing, namely,...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170982
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Public health insurance and medical spending : evidence from the ACA medicaid expansion
Shupe, Cortnie - 2021
providing insurance. Using data from the Medical Expenditures Panel Survey (MEPS), I exploit exogenous variation in Medicaid … targeted households, but it did not causally increase total expenditures among beneficiaries. Rather, Medicaid expansion shifted …
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Plugging gaps in payment systems : evidence from the take-up of new medicare billing codes
Clemens, Jeffrey; Leganza, Jonathan M.; Masucci, Alex - 2021
Over the last decade, the U.S. Medicare program has added new billing codes to enhance the financial rewards for Chronic Care Management and Transitional Care Management. We show that the take-up of these new billing codes is gradual and exhibits substantial variations across markets and...
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Does public policy affect attitudes? : evidence from age-based health insurance coverage policies in the United States
Yörük, Barış K. - 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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Did COVID-19 cost Trump the election?
Lake, James; Nie, Jun - 2021
A common narrative is that COVID-19 cost Trump re-election. We do not find supporting evidence; if anything, the pandemic helped Trump. However, we find substantial evidence that voters abandoned Trump in counties with large increases in health insurance coverage since the Affordable Care Act,...
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Information frictions and adverse selection : policy interventions in health insurance markets
Handel, Benjamin R.; Kolstad, Jonathan; Spinnewijn, Johannes - 2015
A large literature has analyzed pricing inefficiencies in health insurance markets due to adverse selection, typically assuming informed, active consumers on the demand side of the market. However, recent evidence suggests that many consumers have information frictions that lead to suboptimal...
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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 …-in-differences (DD) design we study the effect of the rollout of the LTCIP program between 2005 and 2016 on both LTCI uptake and Medicaid … eligibility, and we estimate the effect on Medicaid savings. Drawing on a difference-in-differences (DD) design, we find that …
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Fiscal federalism, taxation and grants
Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín; Niepelt, Dirk - 2016
traditional, expenditure-related motives for centralization considered in the fiscal federalism literature is present. If central …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523762
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Universal coverage on a budget : impacts on health care utilization and out-of-pocket expenditures in Thailand
Supon Limwattananon; Neelsen, Sven; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2013
We estimate the impact on health care utilization and out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures of a major reform in Thailand that extended health insurance to one-quarter of the population to achieve universal coverage while keeping health spending below 4% of GDP. Identification is through comparison...
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