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The role of public health insurance in protecting against the costs of ill health : evidence from Mexico

Sáenz de Miera Juárez, Belén - 2017

consumption after severe health shocks, as well as the contribution of public health insurance in the form of social security and … are associated with large declines in non-medical consumption. Social security seems to provide protection against both … consumption against accidents. This suggests that income losses associated with disability shocks, for which the programme does …

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The effect of public insurance expansions on substance use disorder treatment : evidence from the affordable care act

Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Saloner, Brendan - 2017

We examine the early effects of U.S. state Medicaid expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on substance use disorder (SUD) treatment utilization. We couple administrative data on admissions to specialty SUD treatment and prescriptions for medications used to treat SUDs in outpatient...

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Health shocks and coping strategies : state health insurance scheme of Andhra Pradesh, India

Dhanaraj, Sowmya - 2014

The objectives of the study are three-fold: to investigate who are vulnerable to welfare loss from health shocks, what are the household responses to cope with the economic burden of health shocks and if policy responses like state health insurance schemes are effective in reducing the economic...

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The effect of publicly provided health insurance on academic performance in Mexico

Alcaraz, Carlo; Chiquiar, Daniel; Orraca, María José; … - 2012

In this paper we study the causal effect of a large expansion of publicly provided health insurance on children's academic performance using the case of Mexico. In general, access to free health insurance could improve education outcomes directly by making household members healthier or...

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Public Health Insurance Take-Up and Labor Supply : Evidence from State Expansions in Coverage to Childless Adults in the Early 2000s

DiNardi, Michael - 2019

This paper considers the effects of public health insurance expansions for low-income childless adults in the early 2000s in a causal framework, prior to passage of the 2010 Affordable Care Act. Using the 1998 through 2007 March Current Population Surveys, my estimates suggest the expansions...

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Does Medicaid Save Lives?

Chen, Jiajia - 2019

In this article, I estimate the effect of the Medicaid expansions that occurred under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) on mortality. The ACA enabled states to expand Medicaid eligibility to all low-income, non-elderly adults. As a result, a significant proportion of...

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Children’s Health Insurance, Family Income, and Welfare Enrollment

Saavedra, Martin Hugo - 2016

Historically, children from wealthier families are more likely to have health insurance than children from poorer families on average. However, the relationship between family income and health insurance is non-linear, as children near the Federal Poverty Line (FPL) are less likely to be insured...

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Restoring Freedom of Contract between Doctor and Patient in Medicare Part B

Bernstein, David E - 2015

Despite promises that Medicare would not interfere with patients' ability to choose their physician and to purchase additional health coverage on the open market, over the decades Medicare rules and regulations have gradually eroded senior citizens' ability to control their healthcare choices....

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Medicaid and Provider Supply

Huh, Jason - 2020

One of the main goals of public health insurance expansions is to increase access to health care services, but doing so may require providers to move to previously underserved areas. Whether and to what extent any such relocation occurs remains an open question. I study how providers choose...

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State Medicaid Eligibility and Enrollment Policies and Rates of Medicaid Participation Among Disabled Supplemental Security Income Recipients

Rupp, Kalman - 2016

In addition to providing income-maintenance payments to eligible participants, the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program provides automatic Medicaid enrollment for applicants upon SSI award in most states. Other states require applicants to file a separate Medicaid application. Some use the...

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