-adjusted conditions that can be used to predict future health care costs. We develop a prospective Medicare CD-RISC model using a 5 …

The share of health-care spending in GDP has been rising rapidly in the United States and other advanced industrial … that improve the quality of life and extend its duration. ; A potential flipside to rising health-care costs, however, is … declining health-care coverage. As documented in a recent report from the U.S. Census Bureau (DeNavas-Walt et al. 2006), the …

general emphasis in the health economics literature on sample selection instead of insurance endogeneity therefore seems … demand estimation. Our semiparametic approach models expenditures simultaneously with the choice of insurance plan and the … that the recent Medicaid expansions may not help all children attain good health. The results are sensitive to assumptions …

In evaluating health-care plans, economists look for the not-so-obvious costs, such as those related to adverse side …