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Age penalties and take-up of private health insurance
Kettlewell, Nathan; Zhang, Yuting - 2021
Penalty mandates are used in many countries to encourage people to purchase health insurance. But are they effective? We use a large administrative dataset for a 10% random sample of all Australian tax-filers to study how people respond to a step-wise age-based mandate, and whether this has...
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Financial incentives and private health insurance demand on the extensive and intensive margins
Kettlewell, Nathan; Zhang, Yuting - 2023
health insurance through subsidies and penalty. We use administrative data from Australia to study how high-income earners …
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Did the ACA Medicaid Expansion save lives?
Borgschulte, Mark; Vogler, Jacob - 2019
We estimate the effect of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on county-level mortality in the first four years following expansion. We find a reduction in all-cause mortality in ages 20 to 64 equaling 11.36 deaths per 100,000 individuals, a 3.6 percent decrease. This estimate is largely...
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Introducing risk adjustment and free health plan choice in employer-based health insurance : evidence from Germany
Pilny, Adam; Wübker, Ansgar; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2017
To equalize differences in health plan premiums due to differences in risk pools, the German legislature introduced a simple Risk Adjustment Scheme (RAS) based on age, gender and disability status in 1994. In addition, effective 1996, consumers gained the freedom to choose among hundreds of...
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Impacts of shifting responsibility for high-cost individuals on health insurance exchange plan premiums and cost-sharing provisions
Mukhopadhyay, Sankar; Wendel, Jeanne; Zou, Miaomiao - 2018
States with Section 1332 Waivers to operate high-risk pools (HRPs) or reinsurance programs can receive federal pass through funds equal to reductions in federal expenditures generated by the Waiver. Shifting financial responsibility for high-cost individuals out of the Health Insurance Exchange...
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Patient versus provider incentives in long-term care
Hackmann, Martin B.; Pohl, R. Vincent; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2023
How do patient and provider incentives affect the provision of long-term care? Our analysis of 551 thousand nursing home stays yields three main insights. First, Medicaid-covered residents prolong their stays instead of transitioning to community-based care due to limited cost-sharing. Second,...
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Nonparametric kernel estimation of the impact of tax policy on the demand for private health insurance in Australia
Gong, Xiaodong; Gao, Jiti - 2015
Australia affected by the income threshold at which the Medicare Levy Surcharge (MLS) kicks in? We propose a new difference de … health insurance in Australia using contaminated data. …
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Impact of time of diagnosis on out-of-pocket costs of cancer treatment, a side effect of health insurance design in Australia
Naghsh Nejad, Maryam; Van Gool, Kees - 2024
The Extended Medicare Safety Net (EMSN) in Australia was designed to provide financial assistance to patients with high …
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Buying control? : "locus of control" and the uptake of supplementary health insurance
Bonsang, Eric; Costa-Font, Joan; New, Sonja C. de - 2021
, we find comparable results using data from Australia, which enhances the external validity of our results. …
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Parallel private health insurance in Australia : a cautionary tale and lessons for Canada
Hurley, Jeremiah E.; Vaithianathan, Rhema; Crossley, … - 2002
) exit to private insurance. Australia provides a particularly promising case study for Canada regarding the dynamics of … parallel systems of public and private finance. This paper examines Australia's experience with parallel finance for inpatient … of the broader political economy associated with parallel systems of finance. Australia's experience provides a number of …
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