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Childhood Medicaid Coverage and Later Life Health Care Utilization

Wherry, Laura R. - 2015

Policy-makers have argued that providing public health insurance coverage to the uninsured lowers long-run costs by reducing the need for expensive hospitalizations and emergency department visits later in life. In this paper, we provide evidence for such a phenomenon by exploiting a legislated...

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Medicaid Managed Care and Infant Health : A National Evaluation

Kaestner, Robert - 2002

In this study, we examine the effects of Medicaid managed care (MMC) on prenatal care utilization and infant health. We obtain separate estimates of the effect of primary care case management (PCCM) managed care programs and HMO managed care plans on prenatal care utilization, birth weight, and...

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Medicaid Expansions and The Crowding Out of Private Health Insurance

Yazici, Esel Y. - 1998

In this paper, we re-examine the question of crowd out among children. Our primary contribution is the use of … longitudinal data. These data allow us to identify several groups of children depending on whether their eligibility for Medicaid … was affected by the eligibility expansions, and to investigate whether changes in insurance coverage of children affected …

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