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The Impact of State Tax Subsidies for Private Long-Term Care Insurance on Coverage and Medicaid Expenditures
Goda, Gopi Shah - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
In spite of the large expected costs of needing long-term care, only 10-12 percent of the elderly population has private insurance coverage. Medicaid, which provides means-tested public assistance and pays for almost half of long-term care costs, spends more than $100 billion annually on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008674239
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Regulatory Redistribution in the Market for Health Insurance
Clemens, Jeffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
selection problem hinges largely on how health care costs are distributed across market participants. Theoretically, I show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240572
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Medicaid Crowd-Out of Private Long-Term Care Insurance Demand: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey
Brown, Jeffrey Robert; Coe, Norma B.; Finkelstein, Amy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
on the near- and young-elderly in the Health and Retirement Survey, our central estimate suggests that a $10,000 decrease …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005710725
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Battles Among Licensed Occupations: Analyzing Government Regulations on Labor Market Outcomes for Dentists and Hygienists
Kleiner, Morris M.; Park, Kyoung Won - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Occupational licensing is among the fastest-growing labor market institutions in the U.S. economy. One of the key features of occupational licensing is that the law determines who gets to do the work. In those cases where universally licensed occupations are both complements to and substitutes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727871
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How Does Retiree Health Insurance Influence Public Sector Employee Saving?
Mitchell, Olivia; Clark, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Economic theory predicts that employer-provided retiree health insurance benefits crowd-out household wealth … accumulation. Nevertheless, there is little research on the impacts of retiree health insurance on wealth accruals, so this paper … utilizes a unique data file on three baseline cohorts from the Health and Retirement Study to explore how employer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011193599
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Regulation of private health insurance markets: Lessons from enrollment, plan type choice, and adverse selection in Medicare Part D
Winter, Joachim; Heiss, Florian; McFadden, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
-mandatory health insurance markets that control adverse selection and assure adequate access and coverage. We model Part D enrollment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008610954
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The Demand for Health Insurance Among Uninsured Americans: Results of a Survey Experiment and Implications for Policy
Krueger, Alan B.; Kuziemko, Ilyana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Most existing work on the price elasticity of demand for health insurance focuses on employees' decisions to enroll in … willingness to pay for a health plan among a large sample of uninsured Americans. The experiment yields price elasticities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009001142
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How does Risk Selection Respond to Risk Adjustment? Evidence from the Medicare Advantage Program
Brown, Jason; Duggan, Mark; Kuziemko, Ilyana; Woolston, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Governments often contract with private firms to provide public services such as health care and education. To decrease …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009001153
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Has the Shift to Managed Care Reduced Medicaid Expenditures? Evidence from State and Local-Level Mandates
Duggan, Mark; Hayford, Tamara - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
From 1991 to 2003, the fraction of Medicaid recipients enrolled in HMOs and other forms of Medicaid managed care (MMC) increased from 11 percent to 58 percent. This increase was largely driven by state and local mandates that required most Medicaid recipients to enroll in an MMC plan....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009223315
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The Effect of Prospective Payment on Admission and Treatment Policy: Evidence from Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities
Sood, Neeraj; Huckfeldt, Peter J.; Grabowski, David C.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
health outcomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151264