Economic theory predicts that employer-provided retiree health insurance (RHI) benefits have a crowd-out effect on … Medicare. Nevertheless, we are unaware of any similar research on the impacts of retiree health insurance per se. Accordingly …, the present paper utilizes a unique data file on respondents to the Health and Retirement Study, to explore how employer …

-mandatory health insurance markets, focusing on the ability of consumers to evaluate and optimize their choices of plans. Our analysis …

-based payment, affecting average and marginal payment. We contrast the effects of two reforms for home health agencies. The home … health interim payment system in 1997 lowered both types of payment; our conceptual model predicts a decline in the … likelihood of use and costs, both of which we find. The home health prospective payment system in 2000 raised average but lowered …

policies of providers. We find modest spillover effects in other post-acute settings and negative health impacts for only one …

One of the core goals of a universal health care system is to eliminate discrimination on the basis of socioeconomic …. These patients also benefit from variation in supply endowments. These results challenge the universal health system's core …