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Health Care Incentives Under Disability Insurance

Slade, Frederic P. - 2010

This paper examines one of the possible factors which has contributed to the significant recent growth in the Social Security Administration's Disability Insurance program: that of health care incentives under the program. The examination of health care incentives involves a 2-period, 2-state...

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Mandates and the Affordability of Health Care

Glied, Sherry - 2009

This paper examines the economic rationale of affordability exemptions in the context of a health insurance mandate. On its face, an affordability exemption makes little sense-- it exempts people from purchasing a good that policymakers believe benefits them. I provide an economic definition of...

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Health Shocks, Insurance Status and Net Worth : Intra- and Inter-Generational Effects

Conley, Dalton - 2011

An extensive literature has documented a robust correlation between socioeconomic status--measured in a variety of ways--and health outcomes; however, much uncertainty remains regarding what causal processes underlie this association. The present paper builds on a growing literature that seeks...

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Health Care in a Multipayer System : the Effects of Health Care Service Demand Among Adults Under 65 on Utilization and Outcomes in Medicare

Glied, Sherry - 2014

increased Medicare utilization that accompanies lower demand among those under 65 has few, if any, benefits for Medicare …

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The Effect of Managed Care on Health Care Providers

Baker, Laurence C.; Brown, Martin L. - 2021

We investigate the effect of managed care on the health care system, focusing on the effects managed care could have on the number and types of health care providers and their efficiency. By influencing providers, managed care may change the structure and performance of the entire health care...

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Health Insurance and Ex Ante Moral Hazard : Evidence from Medicare

Dave, Dhaval - 2010

Basic economic theory suggests that health insurance coverage may cause a reduction in prevention activities, but empirical studies have yet to provide much evidence to support this prediction. However, in other insurance contexts that involve adverse health events, evidence of ex ante moral...

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The Effects of Consumer-Directed Health Plans on Health Care Spending

Lo Sasso, Anthony T. - 2010

We use unique data from an insurer that exclusively offers high-deductible, "consumer-directed" health plans to identify the effect of plan features, notably the spending account, on health care spending. Our results show that the marginal dollar in the spending account is entirely spent on...

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Differences in Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment : Experiences of Insured and Uninsured Patients in a Safety Net Setting

Bradley, Cathy J. - 2010

To explore how well the safety net performs at eliminating differences in diagnosis and treatment of insured and uninsured women with breast cancer, we compared insured and uninsured women treated in a safety net setting. Controlling for socioeconomic characteristics, uninsured women are more...

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Managed Care and Medical Expenditures of Medicare Beneficiaries

Chernew, Michael - 2010

estimate similar models for various measures of health care utilization and find penetration-induced reductions, consistent …

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Patient Cost-Sharing, Hospitalization Offsets, and the Design of Optimal Health Insurance for the Elderly

Chandra, Amitabh - 2010

medical utilization. Yet the success of this strategy depends on two factors: the elasticity of demand for those medical goods …. We find that physician office visits and prescription drug utilization are price sensitive, with implied arc … substantial quot;offsetquot; effects in terms of increased hospital utilization in response to the combination of higher …

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