first to use hospital data to examine the impact of this legislation on insurance coverage, utilization patterns, and … hospital discharges in Massachusetts, the reform decreased uninsurance by 28% relative to its initial level. We also find that …

whereby Dallas school teachers paid $6 a year to the University Hospital and were extended hospital care without further … of hospital services. Our objective has been to consider the questions of how and to what extent people are likely to … react to an increase in the availability of prepaid hospital services. Implications of such findings for the social costs of …