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Household Labor Search, Spousal Insurance, and Health Care Reform
Fang, Hanming - 2019
Health insurance in the United States for the working age population has traditionally been provided in the form of employer-sponsored health insurance (ESHI). If employers offered ESHI to their employees, they also typically extended coverage to their spouse and dependents. Provisions in the...
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Premium Subsidies, the Mandate, and Medicaid Expansion : Coverage Effects of the Affordable Care Act
Frean, Molly - 2016
Using premium subsidies for private coverage, an individual mandate, and Medicaid expansion, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has increased insurance coverage. We provide the first comprehensive assessment of these provisions' effects, using the 2012-2015 American Community Survey and a...
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Impacts of the Affordable Care Act on Health Insurance Coverage in Medicaid Expansion and Non-Expansion States
Courtemanche, Charles - 2016
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) aimed to achieve nearly universal health insurance coverage in the United States through a combination of insurance market reforms, mandates, subsidies, health insurance exchanges, and Medicaid expansions, most of which took effect in 2014. This paper estimates the...
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Effects of Federal Policy to Insure Young Adults : Evidence from the 2010 Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Mandate
Akosa Antwi, Yaa - 2012
We study the health insurance and labor market implications of the recent Affordable Care Act (ACA) provision that allows dependents to remain on parental policies until age 26 using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). Our comparison of outcomes for young adults aged...
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Equilibrium Labor Market Search and Health Insurance Reform
Aizawa, Naoki - 2013
We present and empirically implement an equilibrium labor market search model where risk averse workers facing medical expenditure shocks are matched with firms making health insurance coverage decisions. Our model delivers a rich set of predictions that can account for a wide variety of...
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Wedges, Labor Market Behavior, and Health Insurance Coverage Under the Affordable Care Act
Gallen, Trevor - 2013
The Affordable Care Act's taxes, subsidies, and regulations significantly alter terms of trade in both goods and factor markets. We use a multi-sector (intra-national) trade model to predict and quantify consequences of the Affordable Care Act for the incidence of health insurance coverage and...
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Is the Affordable Care Act Different from Romneycare? A Labor Economics Perspective
Mulligan, Casey B. - 2013
labor income tax rates nationwide than the Massachusetts health reform added to average rates in Massachusetts following its … 2006 statewide health reform. The rate impacts are different between the two laws for several reasons, especially that: the …, before either reform Massachusetts had already been offering more means-tested and employment-tested health insurance …
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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 Impact of Insurance Expansions on the Already Insured : The Affordable Care Act and Medicare
Carey, Colleen M. - 2018
Some states have not adopted the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansions due to concerns that the expansions may impair access to care and utilization for those who are already insured. We investigate such negative spillovers using a large panel of Medicare beneficiaries. Across many...
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Healthcare Markets, the Safety Net and Access to Care Among the Uninsured
Gresenz, Carole R.; Rogowski, Jeannette A.; Escarce, Jose - 2021
We use nationally representative Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data linked with data from multiple secondary sources to study the relationship between access to care among the uninsured and the local healthcare market and safety net. We find that distances between the rural uninsured...
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