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Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Health Care
Skinner, Jonathan S. - 2012
Inefficiency in the U.S. health care system has often been characterized as quot;flat of the curvequot; spending providing little or no incremental value. In this paper, we draw on macroeconomic models of diffusion and productivity to better explain the empirical patterns of outcome improvements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754821
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The Impact of State Tax Subsidies for Private Long-Term Care Insurance on Coverage and Medicaid Expenditures
Goda, Gopi Shah - 2010
In spite of the large expected costs of needing long-term care, only 10-12 percent of the elderly population has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137609
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Does Medicare Save Lives?
Card, David - 2008
The health insurance characteristics of the population changes sharply at age 65 as most people become eligible for Medicare. But do these changes matter for health? We address this question using data on over 400,000 hospital admissions for people who are admitted through the emergency room for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773153
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Take-Up of Medicare Part D : Results from the Health and Retirement Study
Levy, Helen - 2010
the elderly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757923
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Has Public Health Insurance for Older Children Reduced Disparities in Access to Care and Health Outcomes?
Currie, Janet - 2010
This paper investigates the effects of expanding public health insurance eligibility for older children. Using data from the National Health Interview Surveys from 1986 to 2005, we first show that although income continues to be an important predictor of children's health status, the importance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758590
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Returns to Local-Area Health Care Spending : Using Health Shocks to Patients Far from Home
Doyle, Joseph J. - 2010
Health care spending varies widely across markets, yet there is little evidence that higher spending translates into better health outcomes, possibly due to endogeneity bias. The main innovation in this paper compares outcomes of patients who are exposed to different health care systems that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759916
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The Impact of Medicare Part D on Pharmaceutical R&D
Blume-Kohout, Margaret - 2009
Recent evidence suggests that Medicare Part D has increased prescription drug use among the elderly, and earlier …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012766548
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The Rise in Life Expectancy, Health Trends Among the Elderly, and the Demand for Care - a Selected Literature Review
Lindgren, Bjorn - 2016
among the elderly. Issues are: does health status of the elderly improve over time, and how do the trends in health status … of the elderly affect the demand for health- and elderly care? It is not a complete review, but it covers most of recent … empirical studies. The reviewed literature provides strong evidence that the prevalence of chronic disease among the elderly has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984771
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Prescription Drugs, Medical Care, and Health Outcomes : A Model of Elderly Health Dynamics
Yang, Zhou; Gilleskie, Donna B.; Norton, Edward C. - 2021
since its creation in 1965 -- will improve the health of elderly Americans, and how much it will cost. We model how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223173
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Intensive Medical Care and Cardiovascular Disease Disability Reductions
Cutler, David M.; Landrum, Mary Beth; Stewart, Kate - 2021
There is little empirical evidence to explain why disability declined among the elderly over the past 20 years. In this …% of the reductions in disability and death over time, respectively. Elderly patients living in regions with high use of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232937