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Economic Crises and Mental Health : Effects of the Great Recession on Older Americans

Cutler, David M.; Sportiche, Noémie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We examine the effect of the Great Recession of 2007-2009 on the mental health of older adults, using longitudinal Health and Retirement Study data linked to area-level data on house prices. We use a variety of measures to capture mental health and rely on the very large cross-sectional...

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Enrollee Mix, Treatment Intensity, and Cost in Competing Indemnity and HMO Plans

Altman, Daniel - 2000

We examine why managed care plans are less expensive than traditional indemnity insurance plans. Our database consists of the insurance experiences of over 200,000 state and local employees in Massachusetts and their families, who are insured in a single pool. Within this group, average HMO...

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Prices and Productivity in Managed Care Insurance

Cutler, David M. - 1998

Integrating the health services and insurance industries (HMOs) could lower expenditure by reducing either the quantity of services or unit price. We compare the treatment of heart attacks and newly diagnosed chest pain in HMOs and traditional plans in two data sets. The nature of these health...

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Managed Care and the Growth of Medical Expenditures

Cutler, David M. - 1997

We use data across states to examine the relation between HMO enrollment and medical spending. We find that increased managed care enrollment significantly reduces hospital cost growth. While some of this effect is offset by increased spending on physicians, we generally find a significant...

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Clinical Pathways to Disability

Landrum, Mary Beth - 2007

, infectious disease, dementia, heart failure, diabetes, and stroke. These conditions show up in medical claims and self reports. A …

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How Good a Deal Was the Tobacco Settlement? : Assessing Payments to Massachusetts

Cutler, David M. - 2000

We estimate the increment in Massachusetts Medicaid program costs attributable to smoking from December 20, 1991, to … the Massachusetts Medicaid program approximate the payments to Massachusetts under the tobacco settlement of November 1998 …. Whether these payments are viewed as appropriate compensation for Medicaid costs over time depends upon the rate of increase …

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The Concentration of Medical Spending : An Update

Cutler, David M. - 1999

In the last two decades, Medicare spending has doubled in real terms despite the fact that the health of Medicare beneficiaries improved over this period. The goals of this paper are to document how trends in spending by age have changed among elderly Medicare beneficiaries in the last decade...

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Health Care and the Public Sector

Cutler, David M. - 2002

This paper summarizes the many aspects of public policy for health care. I first consider government policy affecting individual behaviors. Government intervention to change individual actions such as smoking and drinking is frequently justified on externality grounds. External costs of smoking...

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Paying for Health Insurance : The Tradeoff between Competition and Adverse Selection

Cutler, David M. - 1996

This paper uses data on health insurance choices by employees of Harvard University to examine the effect of alternative pricing rules on market equilibrium. In the mid-1990s, Harvard moved from a system of subsidizing more expensive insurance to a system of contributing an equal amount to each...

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Does Public Insurance Crowd Out Private Insurance?

Cutler, David M. - 1995

dramatic expansions of the Medicaid program during the 1987-1992 period. Over this time period, Medicaid eligibility for … of the increase in Medicaid coverage was associated with a reduction in private insurance coverage. This occurred largely …

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