drugs, use of other medical services, and health for a nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries. Given the … health. We find that gaining prescription drug insurance through Medicare Part D was associated with a 70% increase in the … health care services or health, as measured by functional status and self-reported health. Among those in poorer health, we …

Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax …-funded, subsidized provision of health care through publicly operated facilities. This paper discusses two rationales for this transition …. First, health insurance would boost fiscal revenues for health care, as post-treatment out-of-pocket payments to providers …

This study examines the effect of a Medicaid disenrollment on employment, sources of health insurance coverage, health …, and health care utilization of childless adults using longitudinal data from the 2004 Panel of the Survey of Income and … disenrollment. Self-reported health and access to medical care worsened as hospitalization rates, doctor visits, and dentist visits …

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 of income for predicting health has fallen for children 9 to 17 …

A strong association between lower socioeconomic status (SES) and worse health-- the SES-health gradient-- has been … income gradient in self-reported health in the US and Canada. We find that being below median income raises the likelihood … that a middle aged person is in poor or fair health by about 15 percentage points in the U.S., compared to less than 8 …

We use the increases in health insurance coverage at age 65 generated by the rules of the Medicare program to evaluate … the effects of health insurance coverage on health related behaviors and outcomes. The rise in overall coverage at age 65 …. Finally, there are small impacts of reaching age 65 on self-reported health, with the largest gains among the groups that …

rates. This paper examines the short- to medium-term changes in health, health care access, and health care utilization … longitudinal data on a wide variety of health-related measures and outcomes, we show that job loss results in worse self …-reported health, including mental health, but is not associated with statistically significant increases in a variety of specific …

In 2006, Massachusetts passed health care reform legislation designed to achieve nearly universal coverage through a … from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we provide evidence that health care reform in Massachusetts led to … better overall self-assessed health. Various robustness checks and placebo tests support a causal interpretation of the …

counties. Nonetheless, there are no consistent effects of obstetric unit closure on maternal and infant health in the full … is a more consistent pattern of negative effects of closure on infant health. Importantly, the adoption of scope … implications for narrowing racial/ethnic disparities in health in response to obstetric unit closures …

remain on parents' health insurance until turning 26 - took effect in September 2010. We estimate this mandate's impacts on … numerous outcomes related to health care access, preventive care utilization, risky behaviors, and self-assessed health. We …. For the full sample, the dependent coverage provision increased the probabilities of having health insurance, a primary …