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How Do Low-Income Enrollees in the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces Respond to Cost-Sharing?
Lavetti, Kurt; DeLeire, Thomas; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2019
The ACA requires insurers to provide cost-sharing reductions (CSRs) to low-income consumers on the marketplaces. We … link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy … levels of health care spending, controlling for past health care use. We estimate the demand elasticity of total health care …
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Ambulance Utilization in New York City after the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act
Courtemanche, Charles; Friedson, Andrew I.; Rees, Daniel I. - 2018
Expanding insurance coverage could, by insulating patients from having to pay full cost, encourage the utilization of … effect of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on the volume and composition of ambulance dispatches. Consistent with the argument … dispatches for more severe injuries, dispatches for minor injuries rose sharply after the implementation of the ACA. By contrast …
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Patient Cost-Sharing and Redistribution in Health Insurance
Klein, Tobias J.; Salm, Martin; Upadhyay, Suraj - 2024
that was in place was a 350 euro deductible. Our counterfactual experiments show that redistribution would decrease when … the deductible would increase. Nonetheless, high-risk individuals can benefit from higher levels of cost-sharing. The …
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Cost-Sharing and Use of Health Services in Italy: Evidence from a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design
Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2016
We use a Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) to evaluate the impact of cost-sharing on the use of health services. In the Italian health system, individuals reaching age 65 and earning low incomes are given total exemption from cost-sharing for health services consumption. Since the...
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Long-Run Consequences of Health Insurance Promotion: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ghana
Asuming, Patrick Opoku; Kim, Hyuncheol Bryant; Sim, Armand - 2017
We study the long-run impacts of health insurance promotion in Northern Ghana. We randomly provide three overlapping interventions to promote enrollment: subsidy, information campaign, and convenient sign-up option, with follow-up surveys seven months and three years after the initial...
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Opt out or top up? Voluntary healthcare insurance and the public vs. private substitution
Fabbri, Daniele; Monfardini, Chiara - 2011
through two channels: the direct impact on the demand for healthcare and that due to selection into VHI. We find evidence of …
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A dynamic analysis of the demand for health insurance and health care
Bolhaar, Jonneke; Lindeboom, Maarten; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2008
We investigate the presence of moral hazard and advantageous or adverse selection in a market for supplementary health insurance. For this we specify and estimate dynamic models for health insurance decisions and health care utilization. Estimates of the health care utilization models indicate...
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On the sorting of physicians across medical occupations
Courty, Pascal; Marschke, Gerald - 2008
We model the sorting of medical students across medical occupations and identify a mechanism that explains the possibility of differential productivity across occupations. The model combines moral hazard and matching of physicians and occupations with pre-matching investments. In equilibrium...
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Sickness absence and local benefit cultures
Lindbeck, Assar; Palme, Mårten; Persson, Mats - 2011
In many countries, sickness absence financed by generous insurance benefits has become an important concern in the policy debate. It turns out that there are strong variations in absence behavior between local geographical areas, and it has been difficult to explain these variations by...
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Impact of China's urban resident basic medical insurance on health care utilization and expenditure
Liu, Hong; Zhao, Zhong - 2012
. This result is robust to various specifications and multiple estimation strategies. However, there is no evidence that it …
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