Primary care physicians (PCPs) provide frontline health care to patients in the U.S.; however, it is unclear how their … health care utilization by focusing on Medicare patients affected by PCP relocations or retirements, which we refer to as … results suggest that switching to higher-quality PCPs could significantly affect patients' longer-run health outcomes …

A host of different factors affect health and longevity, ranging from genetic endowments to public policy. Physicians … styles of primary care physicians significantly affect the health outcomes of their patients. Using data on the population of … aspect of physicians’ health management styles have important implications for patient outcomes and health care costs …

logit. The estimates indicate that insurers with more capitated physicians are more responsive to price. Capitated plans …

The recent reform of the U.S. health care system has been described both as a boon and a death blow for the healthcare …, to evaluate the market's assessment of Health Reform's impact on the health care industry. We find that Scott Brown …'s election was associated with an abnormal return of 2.2 percent for a typical dollar invested in health care stocks and an …

-mandatory health insurance markets, focusing on the ability of consumers to evaluate and optimize their choices of plans. Our analysis …

In France, public health insurance is universal but incomplete, with private payments accounting for roughly 25 percent … of all spending. As a result, most people have supplemental private health insurance. We investigate the effects of such …

There has been substantial public policy concern over the relatively low rates of health insurance coverage among the … the self-employed and wage-earners differ both with respect to insurance coverage and utilization of a variety of health … care services. Our results suggest that for the self-employed, the link between insurance and utilization of health care …