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How Do Low-Income Enrollees in the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces Respond to Cost-Sharing?

Lavetti, Kurt; DeLeire, Thomas; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2019

The ACA requires insurers to provide cost-sharing reductions (CSRs) to low-income consumers on the marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy-driven differences in the value of CSRs that are solely...

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How do low-income enrollees in the affordable care act marketplaces respond to cost sharing?

Lavetti, Kurt; DeLeire, Thomas C.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2023

The Affordable Care Act requires insurers to offer cost sharing reductions (CSRs) to low-income consumers on the Marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy-driven differences in the actuarial value of CSR...

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Expanding the welfare system: a proposal for reform

Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - In: The welfare state in Europe: Challenges and reforms, (pp. 101-117). 1998

The proposal involves the establishment of 'welfare accounts' for every person in a country. There are to be four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account (covering education and training), and a health...

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Empirische Erfahrungen, Versichertenverhalten zu steuern

Osmers, Henning; Vauth, Christoph - 2004

empirical inquiries. Researchers have found that mismanagement is often a consequence of misplaced incentives. This paper tries … incentives. An introduction is given as a short overview of the healthcare sector with its economical specialties. This is … followed by an outline of some well established contract models and their effect on the demander?s incentives. The paper …

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Entry and Exit of Physicians in a two-tiered public

Gächter, Martin; Schwazer, Peter; Theurl, Engelbert - 2011

Firm turnover has recently attracted increased interest in economic research. The entry of new firms increases competition and promises efficiency gains. Moreover, changes in the market structure influence productivity growth, because firm entry usually leads to increased innovation. The health...

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The national regulation of pharmaceutical markets and the timing of new drug launches in Europe

Heuer, Alexander; Mejer, Malwina; Neuhaus, Jennifer - 2007

We analyze the impact of national pharmaceutical regulation on the launch delay of new chemical entities approved by the EMEA's centralized procedure. We find that direct price control regimes have a significantly negative impact on the launch timing. These results cannot be found when...

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The impacts of private hospital entry on the public market for elective care in England

Kelly, Elaine; Stoye, George - 2020

This paper examines the impacts of private hospital entry on publicly funded elective care in England. From 2006, private hospitals were encouraged to enter certain publicly funded markets to compete with existing public hospitals and stimulate quality improvements. Studying elective hip...

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Better off by risk adjustment? Socioeconomic disparities in care utilization in Sweden following a payment reform

Anell, Anders; Dackehag, Margareta; Dietrichson, Jens; … - 2022

prospectively, e.g., by a fixed sum per patient, existing inequalities may be sustained by the incentives to undertreat relatively …

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Regulation of Cost and Quality under Yardstick Competition

Tangerås, Thomas P. - 2002

This paper analyses simultaneous regulation of cost and quality when firms have private, correlated information about productivity and the regulator receives a signal about quality. It is shown that managerial effort and expenditures on quality are positively correlated in the optimal contract....

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Demand heterogeneity in insurance markets: Implications for equity and efficiency

Geruso, Michael - In: Quantitative Economics 8 (2017) 3, pp. 929-975

In many markets insurers are barred from price discrimination based on con- sumer characteristics like age, gender, and medical history. In this paper, I build on a recent literature to show why such policies are inefficient if consumers differ in their willingness-to-pay for insurance...

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