The goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to achieve nearly universal health insurance coverage through a … Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to examine the impacts of the ACA on health care access, risky health behaviors, and … self-assessed health after two years. We estimate difference-in-difference-in-differences models that exploit variation in …

access to health care, and equates to one life saved per 310 newly covered individuals. A cost-benefit analysis shows that …

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 than children from both wealthier families (who obtain health …

uninsurance rate to a historic low. In this brief, we take a detailed look at changes in health insurance coverage among the … these coverage gains would result in millions of Americans, of all ages and backgrounds and in all states, losing health …

health expenditures in Turkey using a detailed micro-level survey, the Household Budget Survey during the period 2002 …-2011. The results show that those who have public health insurance are less likely to face out-of-pocket to capacity to pay and … catastrophic health expenditures, than those with private or without health insurance. In addition, the study explores the …

, and reimbursed by the health authorities. Balance billing is known for restricting access to physicians' services while …

We studied the impact of Affordable Care Act navigator programs on health insurance coverage, using the 80% cut in … rates of marketplace coverage or any health insurance coverage by 2019; however, our estimates could not rule out …

We study the relative health performance of the poor under national health insurance programs for the poor. In 2008 …, India introduced Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), a national health insurance program for the poor. Using three waves … of representative household data from the National Family Health Survey (1998-99, 2005-06, and 2015-16), and employing a …

We present the first comprehensive evidence on the health impacts of the introduction and expansion of a large non …-contributory health insurance program in Mexico, the Seguro Popular (SP). SP provided access to health services without co-pays to …