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This brief examines effects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on labor market outcomes using data from the Current … Population Survey from 2000 to 2016. Results indicate that through 2016, the ACA had little to no adverse effect on employment … expected. These findings suggest that the ACA did not lead to widespread cutbacks in workers' hours by employers attempting to …
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This paper analyzes the effect of Medicaid eligibility expansions on the health insurance coverage of women giving birth and on the use of prenatal care and infant health, controlling for year and state effects and state-specific trends that may be correlated with expansions in Medicaid...
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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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We examine the effect of the Medicaid expansions under the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) on … imply a reduction in collection balances of between $600 to $1,000 among those who gain Medicaid coverage due to the ACA …. Our findings suggest that the ACA Medicaid expansions had important financial impacts beyond health care use. …
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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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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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Anecdotal evidence suggests that the loss of health insurance results in changes in health behavior that reduces the risk or severity of illness. While ex ante moral hazard is nearly always mentioned as a potential consequence of health insurance, it is equally as often noted that ex ante moral...
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