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Reproductive Health Care in Catholic-Owned Hospitals
Hill, Elaine - 2017
Mergers that affiliate a hospital with a Catholic owner, network, or system reduce the set of possible reproductive medical procedures since Catholic hospitals have strict prohibitions on contraception. Using changes in ownership of hospitals, we find that Catholic hospitals reduce the per bed...
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Does Universal Coverage Improve Health? The Massachusetts Experience
Courtemanche, Charles - 2012
In 2006, Massachusetts passed health care reform legislation designed to achieve nearly universal coverage through a combination of insurance market reforms, mandates, and subsidies that later served as the model for national reform. Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance...
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The Impact of Public Health Policy : The Case of Community Health Centers
Goldman, Fred; Grossman, Michael - 2021
The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of the Community Health Center (CHC) on health levels in the U.S. Using infant mortality as the underlying health indicator, a time series of large counties as the data set, and multivariate regression techniques, we investigate the extent to which...
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Public Policy for Health Care
Cutler, David M. - 2021
This paper reviews the public sector role in the provision of health care. A first role of the government is to use tax policy to correct externalities associated with individual behaviors. Estimates suggest that the external effects of many `sins' such as alcohol consumption are greater than...
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The Role of Public Health Improvements in Health Advances : The 20th Century United States
Cutler, David M.; Miller, Grant - 2021
Mortality rates in the US fell more rapidly during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries than any other period in American history. This decline coincided with an epidemiological transition and the disappearance of a mortality "penalty" associated with living in urban areas. There is little...
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Can Diffuse Delivery System Reforms Improve Population Health? A Study of the State Innovation Models Initiative
Deb, Partha; Gangaram, Anjelica; Nouri Khajavi, Hoda - 2022
We examine the effects of the State Innovation Models (SIM) on population-level health status. The SIM initiative provided $250 million to six states in 2013 for delivery system reforms. We use data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System for the years 2010 -- 2016 to compare health...
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Health Status, Health Care and Inequality : Canada vs. The U.S
O'Neill, June - 2010
Does Canada's publicly funded, single payer health care system deliver better health outcomes and distribute health resources more equitably than the multi-payer heavily private U.S. system? We show that the efficacy of health care systems cannot be usefully evaluated by comparisons of infant...
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Pandemic Lockdown : The Role of Government Commitment
Moser, Christian - 2020
This paper studies optimal lockdown policies in a dynamic economy without government commitment. A lockdown imposes a …
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A Simple Planning Problem for COVID-19 Lockdown
Alvarez, Fernando - 2020
We study the optimal lockdown policy for a planner who wants to control the fatalities of a pandemic while minimizing … the output costs of the lockdown. We use the SIR epidemiology model and a linear economy to formalize the planner … parametrize the model using data on the COVID19 pandemic and the economic breadth of the lockdown. The quantitative analysis …
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Maximize Utility Subject to R≤1 : A Simple Price-Theory Approach to Covid-19 Lockdown and Reopening Policy
Budish, Eric B. - 2021
This paper presents a simple price-theory approach to Covid-19 lockdown and reopening policy. The key idea is to … formulation provides economics language for a policy middle ground between society-wide lockdown and ignore-the-virus, and a new …
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