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Life expectancy in the United States fares poorly in international comparisons, primarily because of high mortality rates above age 50. Its low ranking is often blamed on a poor performance by the health care system rather than on behavioral or social factors. This paper presents evidence on the...
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disease burden and cost of care in the US for the next 20 years under status quo and national hepatitis C elimination … of diabetes, and 25,000 cases of chronic kidney disease. The initiative will also avert 24,000 deaths adding 220,000 life …
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,000 in excess of previous trends. Hypertension and heart disease deaths combined were elevated 32,000. Diabetes or obesity …
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Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) awards rise in recessions and fall in expansions, especially for older adults. Using Medicare administrative data for DI entrants between 1991 and 2015, we provide new evidence on the health of DI recipients who enter at different ages and points in the...
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Has U.S. health care for the elderly become more equitable during the past several decades? When inequality is measured by Medicare expenditures, the answer is yes. During 1987-2001, low income households experienced an increase of 78 percent ($2624) in per capita expenditures, double the...
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This paper examines the impact of Medicaid expansions to parents and childless adults on adult mortality. Specifically …, we evaluate the long-run effects of eight state Medicaid expansions from 1994 through 2005 on all-cause, healthcare … effects across all treated states. Using a 5% significance level, we find no evidence that Medicaid expansions affect any of …
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In this paper, we test whether the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansions are associated with in-hospital maternal … research showing that the ACA Medicaid expansions are not statistically associated with pre-pregnancy health or maternal health …
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This study assessed the effect of hospital competition and HMO penetration on mortality after hospitalization for six medical conditions in California, New York, and Wisconsin. We used linked hospital discharge and vital statistics data to study adults hospitalized for myocardial infarction, hip...
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impact of managed care penetration on mortality from heart disease appears to follow a similar pattern. The estimates suggest …
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Report cards on provider performance are intended to improve consumer decision-making and address information gaps in the market for quality. However, inadequate risk adjustment of report-card measures often biases comparisons across providers. We test whether going to a skilled nursing facility...
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