Finkelstein, Amy; McKnight, Robin - In: Journal of Public Economics 92 (2008) 7, pp. 1644-1668
We study the impact of the introduction of one of the major pillars of the social insurance system in the United States: the introduction of Medicare in 1965. Our results suggest that, in its first 10Â years, the establishment of universal health insurance for the elderly had no discernible...