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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 insurance model under uncertainty which incorporates two general types of … insurance. One form of insurance is disability insurance, and the other is the individual; "own" insurance or own risk bearing …
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A literature has found that medical providers inflate bills and report more conditions given financial incentives. We … evaluate whether Medicare reimbursement incentives are driven more by bill inflation or coding costs. Medicare reformed its …
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This paper studies the interactions between health insurance and the incentives for innovation. Although we focus on … inadequate incentives to innovate. Standard results in the health literature suggest that health insurance leads to the … overutilization of health care. Our study of innovation in the pharmaceutical industry emphasizes the interaction of these incentives …
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algorithms with the purpose of creating incentives for an efficient and fair health care system. In this paper, we take a … and fairness misallocations in individual health insurance markets …
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to firms with conventional health insurance plans. In the first firm's CDHP, pharmaceuticals were subject to the …
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, before either reform Massachusetts had already been offering more means-tested and employment-tested health insurance … assistance than other states had, and the subsidized health insurance plans created by the Massachusetts reform were less … substitutable for employer-provided insurance than are the subsidized plans to be created nationwide next year …
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The Affordable Care Act includes four significant, permanent, implicit unemployment assistance programs, plus various implicit subsidies for underemployment, and expanded Medicaid eligibility for adults. Every sector of the economy, and about half of nonelderly adults, is directly affected by at...
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with an online education platform run in the field (n=1,373), in which we randomize incentives to complete course modules … and incentives to make plans to complete the modules. The second is an online survey-completion experiment (n=944), in … which we randomize incentives to complete a survey three weeks later and the price of reminders to complete the survey. In …
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Economists have puzzled over why eligible individuals fail to enroll in social safety net programs. "Chilling effects" arising from an icy policy climate are a popular explanation for low program take-up rates among immigrants, but such effects are inherently hard to measure. This paper...
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information specific to each. I use this model to quantify the effects of inattention in a market for health insurance …
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