We estimate the causal impact of access to means-tested public health insurance coverage (Medicaid) on health outcomes and recidivism for those recently released from incarceration. To do so, we leverage a policy change in South Carolina that allowed simplified Medicaid re-enrollment for...

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 sold in fully-insured commercial markets as of 2011,...

The Affordable Care Act appears likely to worsen rather than cure the significant (but generally unrecognized) unfairnesses to middle- and lower-income working people that have long characterized private health care financing in the U.S. For example, the law’s mandate that individuals purchase...