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The Impact of Privatization : Evidence from the Hospital Sector
Duggan, Mark G.; Gupta, Atul; Jackson, Emilie; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
understudied. We study potential trade-offs in the US hospital sector where public control declined by 42% over 1983-2019. Private … certain patients. Using national data across all hospitals and patients, we study 258 hospital privatizations over the 2000 … we interpret as a decline in access to care. Hospital privatization therefore partially offsets the benefits of providing …
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Lessons for Health Care Policy in the United States : Comparing Health Care Systems
Aspalter, Christian - 2012
This paper compares health care systems. It looks beyond normal academic, political, or journalistic rhetoric, by exactly sticking to facts, i.e. empirical data (in particular data provided by the WHO) and comprehensive case study analyses. The paper finds that a number of myths and common...
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The Enemy Within : Medicare Advantage and the Future of U.S. Healthcare
Williams, Brendan - 2023
In promoting health care reform in 2009, President Obama stated, “when it comes to health care spending, we are on an unsustainable course that threatens the financial stability of families, businesses and government itself.” We are still on that “unsustainable course” thirteen years...
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Trust and Health Care-Seeking Behavior
Darden, Michael; Macis, Mario - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We present results from a nationally representative survey of American adults, guided by a simple theoretical model expressing health care-seeking behavior as a function of economic and behavioral fundamentals and highlighting the role of trust. We report several findings. First, we document a...
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Contracts, information and incentives in health care
Chalkley, Martin - In: The Elgar companion to health economics, (pp. 242-249). 2006
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How do low-income enrollees in the Affordable Care Act marketplaces respond to cost-sharing?
Lavetti, Kurt; DeLeire, Thomas C.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2019
link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130268
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Do pandemics change healthcare? : evidence from the great influenza
Esteves, Rui Pedro; Mitchener, Kris; Nencka, Peter; … - 2022
Using newly digitized U.S. city-level data on hospitals, we explore how pandemics alter preferences for healthcare. We … find that cities with higher levels of mortality during the Great Influenza of 1918-1919 subsequently expanded hospital … access to healthcare. We do not find evidence that government-run hospitals or other types of city-level spending related to …
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The Mortality Effects of Healthcare Consolidation : Evidence from Emergency Department Closures
Chatterji, Pinka; Ho, Chun-Yu; Wu, Xue - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine whether loss of emergency department services is associated with county-level mortality rates in rural areas over the period 2005-2018. We use a propensity-weighted difference-in-difference approach, comparing counties that lost emergency department services to counties that retained...
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The Impact of Vertical Integration on Physician Behavior and Healthcare Delivery : Evidence from Gastroenterology Practices
Saghafian, Soroush; Song, Lina; Newhouse, Joseph P.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
US healthcare is undergoing a period of substantial change, with many hospitals vertically integrating with physician …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226125
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Price Spillovers and Specialization in health Care : The Case of Children's Hospitals
McCarthy, Ian M.; Raval, Mehul V. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
comparable clinical quality across hospital types. How specialty hospitals can maintain such a price premium remains an open …
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