Marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit … cost sharing have higher levels of health care spending, controlling for past health care use. We estimate demand … elasticities of total health care spending among this low-income population of approximately -0.12, suggesting that demand …

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 … levels of health care spending, controlling for past health care use. We estimate the demand elasticity of total health care …

utilization. Yet the success of this strategy depends on two factors: the elasticity of demand for those medical goods, and the … HIE, we find large "offset" effects in terms of increased hospital utilization in response to the combination of higher … copayments for physicians and prescription drugs. These offset effects are concentrated in patients for whom medical care is …