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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 … of health status using JCUSH (The Joint Canada/U.S. Survey of Health) and other surveys. We find a somewhat higher … incidence of chronic health conditions in the U.S. than in Canada but somewhat greater U.S. access to treatment for these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759803
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When Does Improving Health Raise GDP?
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2012
We assess quantitatively the effect of exogenous health improvements on output per capita. Our simulation model allows for a direct effect of health on worker productivity, as well as indirect effects that run through schooling, the size and age-structure of the population, capital accumulation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104623
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Medicare Part D and its Effect on the Use of Prescription Drugs, Use of Other Health Care Services and Health of the Elderly
Kaestner, Robert - 2010
We examine the effect of gaining prescription drug insurance as a result of Medicare Part D on use of prescription drugs, use of other medical services, and health for a nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries. Given the heightened importance of prescription drugs for those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143176
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Randomized Regulation : The Impact of Minimum Quality Standards on Health Markets
Bedoya Arguelles, Guadalupe; Das, Jishnu; Dolinger, Amy - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356919
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Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Behaviors after Three Years
Courtemanche, Charles - 2018
This paper examines the impacts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – which substantially increased insurance coverage through regulations, mandates, subsidies, and Medicaid expansions – on behaviors related to future health risks after three years. Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012921531
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Do Insurers Risk-Select Against Each Other? Evidence from Medicaid and Implications for Health Reform
Kuziemko, Ilyana - 2013
Increasingly in U.S. public insurance programs, the state finances and regulates competing, capitated private health plans but does not itself directly insure beneficiaries through a public fee-for-service (FFS) plan. We develop a simple model of risk-selection in such settings. Capitation...
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The Impact of Health Care Reform on Hospital and Preventive Care : Evidence from Massachusetts
Kolstad, Jonathan T. - 2010
In April 2006, the state of Massachusetts passed legislation aimed at achieving near universal health insurance coverage. A key provision of this legislation, and of the national legislation passed in March 2010, is an individual mandate to obtain health insurance. Although previous researchers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143177
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Impacts of the Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Provision on Health-Related Outcomes of Young Adults
Barbaresco, Silvia - 2014
The first major insurance expansion of the Affordable Care Act – a provision requiring insurers to allow dependents to remain on parents' health insurance until turning 26 – took effect in September 2010. We estimate this mandate's impacts on numerous outcomes related to health care access,...
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The Contribution of Behavior Change and Public Health to Improved U.S. Population Health
Stewart, Susan T. - 2014
Adverse behavioral risk factors contribute to a large share of deaths. We examine the effects on life expectancy (LE) and quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) of changes in six major behavioral risk factors over the 1960-2010 period: smoking, obesity, heavy alcohol use, and unsafe use of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044628
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An Ounce of Prevention
Newhouse, Joseph P. - 2022
I look at prevention through an economic lens and make three main points. First, those advocating preventive measures are often asked how much money a given measure saves. This question is misguided. Rather preventive measures can be thought of as insurance, with a certain cost in the present...
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