Subsidies in many health insurance programs depend on prices set by competing insurers -- as prices rise, so do … subsidies increase as prices rise. We propose two reasons why optimal health insurance subsidies may rise with prices: doing so … from Massachusetts' health insurance exchange. Relative to fixed subsidies, price-linking increase prices by up to 5%, and …

altered the functioning of the health insurance industry in the US, opening many questions about how the system should be … designed and regulated. While previous literature largely focused on health insurance provided through public programs or … employer-sponsored insurance, in this dissertation I study the health coverage provision for outsiders: the twenty-one percent …