Among health care systems with both public and private elements (such as in the US and Germany), an important question … is whether the type of health insurance exerts an impact on workers' careers. We exploit the unique German case of a two …-tier health care system to analyze whether opting out of public statutory health insurance and into private health insurance …

"The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this. You can sign up to receive the … NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. President Obama's health insurance reform efforts, as embodied in the bills … death blow for private insurance industries. Using stock-price data on health care firms in the S&P health index, we exploit …

The recent reform of the U.S. health care system has been described both as a boon and a death blow for the healthcare …, to evaluate the market's assessment of Health Reform's impact on the health care industry. We find that Scott Brown …'s election was associated with an abnormal return of 2.2 percent for a typical dollar invested in health care stocks and an …

A health insurer's Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) is the share of premiums spent on medical claims. As part of the goal of … reducing the cost of health care coverage, the Affordable Care Act introduced minimum MLR provisions for all health insurance …